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The integration of family therapy in a psychiatric day hospital
Author(s) -
Olie Dirk A.
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
journal of family therapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.52
H-Index - 45
eISSN - 1467-6427
pISSN - 0163-4445
DOI - 10.1046/j..1982.00596.x
Subject(s) - family therapy , psychiatry , psychiatric hospital , psychology , general hospital , psychotherapist , medicine , family medicine
The clients, who present themselves at our psychiatric day hospital in Amsterdam, often have long‐standing problems. These problems are usually of a complex nature, and the age of the clients plays an imporant role in this. Their age varies from seventeen to forty, with an average of twenty‐eight. Efforts were made over a long period to facilitate solutions to the clients' family conflicts. During this time an extensive range of problems within the family were presented of which the symptoms of the client represent just a part. Working as a family therapist in a psychiatric day hospital, where clients are admitted individually, places the family therapist in a number of dilemmas, especially when many working in the hospital see the problems only as individual ones.