ex-patient club

a group that provides individuals discharged from a psychiatric hospital with social and recreational experience, promotes their rehabilitation and readjustment to posthospital life, and maintains their mental health improvement through group support and, in some cases, group therapy. Ex-patient clubs may be organized by former patients or by the discharging hospital as part of its aftercare program. See also mental health support organization.

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August 31st 2024

learning paradigm

an experimental design used to research incidental learning. Groups of participants are shown the same stimuli (e.g., a list of 20 words) but asked to perform different tasks with them (e.g., picture associated words, determine the average number of letters in each word). Afterward, the participants unexpectedly are asked to recall as many of the presented items as possible.