The significance of program site for inpatient therapeutic activities offered to chronic patients is rarely discussed. This paper reviews experiences with the development of a facility-wide off-unit activities program in a state psychiatric center. The organizational, clinical, and administrative implications of off-unit proramming are examined in relation to on-unit treatment ractices. iecommendations are made to assist the successful introauction of off-unit programming and the identification of the most effective location for specific activities.The growing post-deinstitutionalization generation of "new chronic" patients is beginning to gain significant attention in the professional literature. While a large body of recent work dealing with the treatment of chronic patients focuses on the community survival of young adult chronics (Pepper & Ryglewicz, 1982), there
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