Five Models Of Adaptation

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Situational Withdrawal
The inmate withdrawing attention from everything except events immediately around his body. The patient consequently withdraws from all interaction with both fellow patients and staff.
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The Intransigent or Rebel Line
This involves the inmate deliberately challenging the institution by flagrantly refusing to cooperate with staff in almost anyway. The institution usually reacts with varying degrees of punishment until the patient finally conforms.
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Colonisation
This involves the inmate becoming institutionalised. They become overdependent on the institution managing their lives and feel that they cannot survive outside it. They may deliberately messed up prior to their discharge.
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Conversion
This involves patients appearing to internalise the optional or psychiatric view of themselves and acting out of the role of perfect inmate. These patients often volunteer to be at the disposal of staff.
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Playing it Cool
This refers to those patients who combine colonisation and conversion to keep out of trouble and to convince staff that they are conforming in order to get out of the institution with minimal psychiatric damage. This group of patients is the most su
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Card 2

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This involves the inmate deliberately challenging the institution by flagrantly refusing to cooperate with staff in almost anyway. The institution usually reacts with varying degrees of punishment until the patient finally conforms.

Back

The Intransigent or Rebel Line

Card 3

Front

This involves the inmate becoming institutionalised. They become overdependent on the institution managing their lives and feel that they cannot survive outside it. They may deliberately messed up prior to their discharge.

Back

Preview of the back of card 3

Card 4

Front

This involves patients appearing to internalise the optional or psychiatric view of themselves and acting out of the role of perfect inmate. These patients often volunteer to be at the disposal of staff.

Back

Preview of the back of card 4

Card 5

Front

This refers to those patients who combine colonisation and conversion to keep out of trouble and to convince staff that they are conforming in order to get out of the institution with minimal psychiatric damage. This group of patients is the most su

Back

Preview of the back of card 5

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