A model for acute psychiatric inpatient treatment of latency-age children.
Beginning with the premise that acute inpatient treatment of severely disturbed latency-age children offers enormous advantages over other types of interventions, the author describes a model for such treatment. The model consists of three phases: initial, working-through, and termination. It has a psychoanalytic basis and takes into account changing factors, such as the child's symptoms and the attitudes of both the child and his parents throughout different stages of the hospitalization. A case history illustrates the various phases and the treatment interventions used.
D000208:Acute Disease; D001010:Anxiety, Separation; D002648:Child; D002653:Child Behavior Disorders / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D002657:Child Development; D002673:Child, Hospitalized; D003419:Crisis Intervention; D005260:Female; D006746:Hospital Bed Capacity, 500 and over; D006760:Hospitalization; D006773:Hospitals, Municipal; D006801:Humans; D007837:Latency Period, Psychological; D008297:Male; D009519:New York City; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D010347:Patient Care Planning