title: Intensive psychiatric care for adolescents and young adults: a model for treatment and evaluation.
abstract: The authors' model for the hospital treatment of severely disordered adolescents and young adults calls for a categorization of the patient's major characteristics that are relevant to treatment along six axes: symptoms and signs, previous course of the disorder, social functioning, work or school functioning, family or other living situation, and sense of identity. They present a case study of a 19-year-old male patient to demonstrate how the model works.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D005190:Family; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D007902:Length of Stay; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000628:therapy*; D010347:Patient Care Planning; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D011613:Psychotherapy; D012649:Self Concept; D012919:Social Behavior