British Journal of Occupational Therapy

The article presents a social skills package for use by occupational therapy staff working with chronic psychiatric patients, The training package is evaluated and results indicate its effectiveness. Difficulties encountered in running social skills training groups in a hospital setting are discussed. The importance of generalization training for social skills is stressed.

Over the last few years different hospitals have developed their own methods for the bracing of femoral fractures. This paper aims to describe the techniques evolved in Nottingham over past 21;2 years, and the materials used in the application of these femoral cast braces.