Psychiatric Services
- Volume 33
- Number 7
- July 1982
Article
Publication date: 01 July 1982
Pages541–550Schizophrenia, as a failure to achieve maturity and independence, has always had distressing effects on a patient's family. Unfortunately, scientific theories that propose the family itself as a contributing factor have eroded the alliance between ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.33.7.541Publication date: 01 July 1982
Pages550–556Since its beginning some 25 years ago, family therapy has become a widely used modality. The field is developing its own theoretical foundations, training institutions, and body of outcome research; the authors review some of the changes, especially those ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.33.7.550Publication date: 01 July 1982
Pages557–560Family burden is the emotional and economic strain that family members experience when a relative is discharged from a mental hospital and returns home. Since World War II the length of hospital stays has declined steadily, and deinstitutionalization has ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.33.7.557Publication date: 01 July 1982
Pages560–563Multiple family groups have been used for some time as a treatment for hospitalized psychiatric patients. However, there is no indication that they have been used in orienting patients and their families during the traumatic initial period on the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.33.7.560Publication date: 01 July 1982
Pages564–568Support and education groups for the families of the mentally ill have been in existence for at least 20 years. The authors describe a group treatment program established in 1979 for parents of chronically mentally ill individuals living in the community. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.33.7.564Publication date: 01 July 1982
Pages569–572Two theoretical frameworks have been proposed for understanding the relationship between family functioning and involuntary mental hospitalization: social control and social support. To more fully examine the family's role in involuntary commitment of a ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.33.7.569Publication date: 01 July 1982
Pages573–575Attitudes of staff members and families toward family involvement in treatment of hospitalized chronic mental patients were explored using a 17-item questionnaire. Family members of 23 patients at a rural health center completed the questionnaire, which ...
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