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Arriving, Settling‐in, Settling‐down, Leaving and Following‐up: Stages of stay at the Arbours Centre *
Author(s) -
Berke Joseph H.
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
british journal of medical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.102
H-Index - 62
eISSN - 2044-8341
pISSN - 0007-1129
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8341.1987.tb02729.x
Subject(s) - settling , intervention (counseling) , psychology , settling time , therapeutic community , psychotherapist , psychoanalysis , psychiatry , environmental engineering , engineering , control engineering , step response
The Arbours Centre is a small psychodynamically oriented therapeutic community which accommodates three live‐in psychotherapists and up to five ‘guests’ at any one time. This paper describes the ‘stages of stay’ which guests and therapists pass through during the course of an intervention at the Centre, and discusses their interactions during each of these periods.