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Psychotherapy by nurses – some special characteristics
Author(s) -
Strang John
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
journal of advanced nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.948
H-Index - 155
eISSN - 1365-2648
pISSN - 0309-2402
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2648.1982.tb00225.x
Subject(s) - dependency (uml) , unit (ring theory) , nursing , psychology , psychotherapist , medicine , computer science , mathematics education , software engineering
On an inpatient drug dependency unit, the nursing role was recently extended to include structured individual interviews. Each new patient was allocated to a particular nurse. The success of the scheme is discussed and some of the difficulties encountered are described. A new framework, the Friend role and the Therapist role, is outlined and some benefits of the use of this framework are detailed.