Acute wards: problems and solutions: Alternatives to acute wards: users' perspectives
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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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Results Among compulsory admissions (846 admissions, 11.8% of all admissions) 97 admissions resulted in 148 incidents of absconding involving 72 patients. Typical absconders are younger than 35 years, have a diagnosis of chronic schizophrenia with an alcohol/drug comorbidity, are unmarried, and live on social welfare payments. Only 55.4% of absconders were considered harmful to self or others. ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Psychiatric Bulletin
سال: 2002
ISSN: 0955-6036,1472-1473
DOI: 10.1192/pb.26.9.346