Acute wards: problems and solutions. A participant observation study of life on an acute psychiatric ward
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Acute wards: problems and solutions Creating a psychotherapeutic culture in acute psychiatric wards
There has been a curious linguistic shift in the use of the word community in mental health (Holmes, 2001a). In the 1950s and early 1960s community psychiatry was synonymous with milieu therapy and the therapeutic community that is, the attempt to create a vibrant community of patients and staff, in a shared space, working actively together to overcome disability, illness and stigma. The contra...
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عنوان ژورنال: Psychiatric Bulletin
سال: 2002
ISSN: 0955-6036,1472-1473
DOI: 10.1192/pb.26.9.344