[Vocational promotion of psychiatrically handicapped patients in a Frankfurt am Main vocational training center].

In 1988, the Frankfort on Main Vocational Retraining Centre had decided in favour of increased, on-going admission of psychiatrically disabled adults, offering opportunities for their vocational education. The centre's objective is to enable psychiatrically disabled rehabilitees to successfully complete formal occupational training in as "normal" a setting as possible. This means: the Centre is a vocational rehabilitation facility, and is not directed at therapy or care. Psychiatrically disabled rehabilitees are accepted for up to 10 percent of available places in the various programme types. The overall objective is formal occupational qualification. A "training centre" open to all training orientations has been established for individualized service provision in the event of crisis situations during programme participation. Special attention is focussed on intensive, continuous further education of staff, inter alia by group supervision.