The Long Struggle: Well-Functioning Working-Class Black Families

The rehabilitation movement, viewed by some as the best-kept secret in mental health, is finding increasing support and visibility in the troubled aftermath of deinstitutionalization. A new wave of interest in functional performance and skills of daily living has generated more programs, more research, and an expanding body of knowlege. Theory and Practice of Psychiatric Rehabilitation is a welcome and useful addition to the field, both for the scope of its content and for the extensive stateof-the-art literature review that permeates each chapter. Its British editors argue the case for broadening the focus and range of the rehabilitation approach “beyond its traditional confinements to one particular type of patient (such as schizophrenics), one particular setting (long-stay hospitals), and one particular activity (such as industrial work).” In keeping with this mission, the initial chapters establish a useful historical and conceptual basis for subsequent sections of the book. The bulk of the book deals with rehabilitation for a range of diagnostic groups