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Manufacturing a human drama from a psychiatric crisis: crisis intervention, family therapy and the work of R. D. Scott
Author(s) -
; Reed
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.69
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1365-2850
pISSN - 1351-0126
DOI - 10.1046/j.1365-2850.1998.00144.x
Subject(s) - crisis intervention , intervention (counseling) , drama , relevance (law) , mental health , psychiatry , family therapy , work (physics) , service (business) , mental health service , psychotherapist , medicine , psychology , nursing , political science , law , engineering , art , mechanical engineering , literature , economics , economy
There has been a recent resurgence of interest in crisis intervention within psychiatry. The idea of crisis services is not, of course, a new thing, and there is a great deal to be learnt from returning to the innovative writings of those practitioners who developed similar services in the 1960s and 1970s. This article discusses the work of the psychiatrist and family therapist R. D. Scott, who developed a 24‐hour family‐orientated crisis intervention service in London during this era. Although under‐utilized, the writings of Scott and his colleagues in this area continue to be of crucial relevance to mental health nurses and other psychiatric professionals.