[Short trips by chronic psychiatric patients as effective sociotherapeutic measures].
The article reports on experience gained with short excursions (day trips and brief holidays) for chronic psychiatric patients. Such trips have a beneficial effect on the patients' mental status and improve the image of in-patient psychiatric treatment. To the patients, this form of sociotherapeutic activity represents an enrichment in the overall therapeutic scheme at psychiatric sanatoria.
D002908:Chronic Disease; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007899:Leisure Activities; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000523:psychology / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D012960:Socioenvironmental Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D014195:Travel
Kurzreisen chronisch-psychiatrisch Kranker als effektive soziotherapeutische Massnahmen.