title: Residential care of youth: convergent versus divergent thinkers.
abstract: Effective residential care of disturbed adolescents depends on the treatment programmes being integrated. Readily achievable with defined illness, special difficulties exist when dealing with disturbed adolescents. For a unit to be successful an important function of its director is monitoring the therapeutic input so the recurring but inevitable conflicts of aims (e.g. encouraging independence of adolescents but maintaining control of unit functioning) do not render staff ineffective. Amongst the qualities required are a capacity to be at ease with divergent thinking.
authors.affiliation: Young People's Unit, Royal Edinburgh Hospital, Morningside.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Evans
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001521:Behavior Therapy; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000628:therapy*; D008884:Milieu Therapy; D010684:Philosophy; D012112:Residential Facilities; D013808:Therapeutic Community; D013850:Thinking