title: Patient care and family counseling. Social work considerations in audits of hyperkinetic reaction of childhood.
abstract: To assure optimal patient care, a multidisciplinary audit of hyperkinetic reaction of childhood should involve the social work department. Specific process criteria can be established to assess the psychosocial evaluation of the patient, inpatient social work treatment, and follow-up care. Collectively, these criteria provide a mechanism with which to measure psychosocial factors that contribute to hyperkinesis, improvement in the patient's condition, family responsiveness to patient needs, and the effectiveness of the social work department of carrying out its responsibility for treatment of hyperkinetic children.
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D003376:Counseling; D005190:Family; D006801:Humans; D006948:Hyperkinesis; D008485:Medical Audit; D012947:Social Work