emotional states, have a sense of control over life through successful experiences, practice problem solving, and resolve conflicts leading to stronger family and peer relationships. Socialization values lie in the pleasure of being together, doing things of achievement and feelings of self-worth fortify the ego, whereas the discipline of belonging to a group requires personal organization and the recognition and acceptance of reality goals. Music activities carried on elsewhere in the psychiatric hospital involve performances by patients, and personnel. These are used for entertainment on the wards, parties, and community sings and dances in the auditorium. Background music is supplied for administrative functions and meetings of various professional departments. Suitable music is provided for weekly religious services. Such out-of-clinic activities serve to enhance the prestige of the patients who perform and tend to broaden their interest.Demonstration programs of music workshop activities are used frequently as an orientation for professional trainee groups in the hospital. These demonstrations describe the program-its goals and its problems-and participation in them affords patients considerable pride. When patients are taken into the community to entertain, they are almost invariably a credit to the hospital in behavior and performance. They illustrate to many kinds of club and church groups that patients are people. Sharing in the social hours at the meetings of these groups increases the patients' ease and security in functioning outside the hospital.Large group performances for holidays, special patient events, and an annual music and art department show are used to involve patients of many types and levels of skill in music and allied arts. Patients work with staff personnel in planning and coaching these shows. By-products of these activities, both in and out of the workshop, frequently include reduction of bitternes...
