title: A short-term hospital program preparing borderline and schizophrenic patients for intensive psychotherapy.
abstract: This paper explores the role of a short-term hospitalization program in preparing certain borderline and schizophrenic patients for intensive psychotherapy on an outpatient basis. I will begin with a description of the inpatient unit and next discuss some relevant theoretical issues regarding borderline and schizophrenic psychopathology. I will then describe how these issues are dealt with in the evaluation procedure, in individual psychotherapy, and in the milieu therapy provided by our program.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001883:Borderline Personality Disorder / Q000628:therapy*; D005196:Family Therapy; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D007902:Length of Stay; D008297:Male; D008884:Milieu Therapy; D010348:Patient Care Team; D010554:Personality Disorders / Q000628:therapy*; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000379:methods*; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000628:therapy*; D012565:Schizophrenic Psychology