Extra meetings: a tool for decisions and therapy.
An Adolescent Unit uses the tool of any member of staff or patient group having the right to call a meeting. The development of this idea, anxieties about it, its usefulness and examples are presented. The meetings are used for communication, support or decisions and are often in themselves the vehicles for change.
D000293:Adolescent; D001007:Anxiety / Q000523:psychology; D003142:Communication; D003657:Decision Making; D006778:Hospitals, Psychiatric / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000628:therapy; D010379:Peer Group; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations