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Western Australia - Glossary Term
Custodial Care [Intellectual Disability] ( - )
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The term custodial care is a modern term used to describe a historical type of out-of-home care for people with mental illnesses and intellectual disability. In a custodial care model, a person was not given any treatment to help them improve from their condition at admission. Many children with intellectual disabilities in Western Australian mental hospitals up to the 1960s suffered from custodial care.
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Children with intellectual disabilities who were admitted to mental hospitals were thought to be incurable so the responsibility of the institution was to keep them in custody for their own protection and the protection of society.
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