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| Residential alternatives to standard acute psychiatric wards | | Author(s) | Sonia Johnson |
| Journal title | British Journal of Psychiatry, vol 197, Supplement 53, August 2010 |
| Pages | 54 pp (whole issue) |
| Source | http://bjp.rcpsych.org |
| Keywords | Psychogeriatric patients ; Admission [hospitals] ; Psychiatric units ; Evaluation. |
| Annotation | Many service users and professionals are not satisfied with current hospital care: they call for a safer and more friendly environment with greater freedoms and less social distance between staff and patients. Phase 2 of the Alternatives Study was designed to improve the evidence base for such residential alternatives, and was a multiple methods investigation of six residential and in-patient alternatives to standard acute psychiatric wards in different catchment areas across England. Examples of residential alternatives include clinical crisis houses, crisis team beds, non-clinical alternatives, general therapeutic wards, short-stay wards and general wards for specific groups. Findings from the papers in this supplement of British Journal of Psychiatry suggest that offering a more acceptable environment increases satisfaction with treatment, although it does not improve the clinical outcome. This set of coordinated studies also suggest that psychiatrists should listen (and talk) more to their patients, and make their style of working in hospital and community facilities less paternalistic. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-100809217 A |
| Classmark | LF:E: LD:QKH: LDL: 4C |
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