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IMPROVING THE CONTAINER: WARD COMMUNITY GROUPS AND THE MODERN ACUTE PSYCHIATRIC IN‐PATIENT SETTING
Author(s) -
Crockett Philip,
Forrester Michael,
Treliving Linda
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
british journal of psychotherapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.442
H-Index - 17
eISSN - 1752-0118
pISSN - 0265-9883
DOI - 10.1111/j.1752-0118.2009.01142.x
Subject(s) - therapeutic community , psychiatric ward , psychology , container (type theory) , psychiatry , acute care , health care , mechanical engineering , engineering , economics , economic growth
Ward community groups have been mostly lost from acute psychiatric in‐patient settings in recent years with changes related to care in the community and altered therapeutic expectations. This paper outlines the re‐introduction of ward community groups to such a setting and, by using the quantitative measure of patient complaints and qualitative observations, offers evidence for their usefulness as a therapeutic medium, beneficial to the acute psychiatric in‐patient ward, and as a container for disturbed states.