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Characteristics of a good ward atmosphere
Author(s) -
Friis S.
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
acta psychiatrica scandinavica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.849
H-Index - 146
eISSN - 1600-0447
pISSN - 0001-690X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-0447.1986.tb06270.x
Subject(s) - anger , aggression , psychology , atmosphere (unit) , orientation (vector space) , psychiatry , clinical psychology , physics , geometry , mathematics , thermodynamics
Thirty‐five short term wards were evaluated with the WAS and a good milieu index. The results indicated that psychotic and non‐psychotic patients need different types of atmosphere. Psychotic patients seem to benefit primarily from a milieu with a high level of Support, Practical orientation and Order and organization, and a low level of Anger and aggression, whereas non‐psychotic patients seem to benefit mostly from a milieu with a high level of all subscales except for two: the level of Staff control ought to be low and the level of Anger and aggression ought probably to be intermediate.