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Teamwork, information control and therapeutic effectiveness: a tale of two therapeutic communities
Author(s) -
McKeganey N. P.,
Bloor M. J.
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
sociology of health and illness
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.146
H-Index - 97
eISSN - 1467-9566
pISSN - 0141-9889
DOI - 10.1111/1467-9566.ep11346935
Subject(s) - teamwork , control (management) , therapeutic community , psychotherapist , psychology , medicine , computer science , management , economics , artificial intelligence
This paper maps the differential distribution of therapeutic work within the programmes of two therapeutic communities found in psychiatric hospitals. It is shown that in one of the two communities, therapeutic work was largely restricted to the small groups and to those large groups attended by the psychiatrists. The other community displayed a distribution of therapeutic work which was spread across the whole formal weekly programme and into informal interaction outside the programme. These contrasting distributions are traced to differing patterns of internal communication which affected the ability of nurses and patients to work collaboratively with the psychiatrists.