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The American Journal of Psychiatry, VOL. 127, No. 3

Articles | September 01, 1970

The Principle of Normalization and Its Implications to Psychiatric Services

WOLF WOLFENSBERGER

Am J Psychiatry 1970;127:291-297.

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Associate professor, Nebraska Psychiatric Institute, University of Nebraska College of Medicine, 602 S. 44th Ave., Omaha, Neb. 68105

1971, American Psychiatric Association

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The "normalization principle" formulated by Scandinavian workers in mental retardation aims at eliciting and maintaining culturally normative behavior and using culturally normative means to this end. The principle is simultaneously simple and comprehensive, and it can constitute a unifying ideology for all human management areas. It provides guidance for decisions from the lowest clinical to the highest systems levels. Some specific implications for psychiatry are discussed.

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