title: Arriving, settling-in, settling-down, leaving and following-up: stages of stay at the Arbours Centre.
abstract: The Arbours Centre is a small psychodynamically oriented therapeutic community which accommodates three live-in psychotherapists and up to five 'guests' at any one time. This paper describes the 'stages of stay' which guests and therapists pass through during the course of an intervention at the Centre, and discusses their interactions during each of these periods.
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007902:Length of Stay; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000628:therapy*; D010348:Patient Care Team; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000379:methods*; D012112:Residential Facilities; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000628:therapy