title: A short-term, family-oriented, child and adolescent psychiatric inpatient treatment program.
abstract: We describe a short-term inpatient treatment program whose purpose is to integrate the different interventions in the child, his or her family, and the outpatient professional network. The interaction between the family and the ward is the basic structural element of child psychiatric inpatient treatment. The child, the family, the professional outpatient network, and the ward community together form an extended therapeutic system. Inpatient treatment can be understood as a coevolving process between these systems. The essential feature in our working model is the continuous, daily nursing staff supervision and a focus on interactions in the extended therapeutic system.
authors.affiliation: Department, Turku University Hospital, Finland.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sourander
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Piha
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001007:Anxiety / Q000628:therapy; D019090:Case Management; D002648:Child; D003863:Depression / Q000628:therapy; D005196:Family Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D007318:Inservice Training; D008297:Male; D009740:Nursing Staff / Q000193:education / Q000523:psychology; D009771:Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder / Q000628:therapy; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D011368:Professional-Family Relations; D012114:Residential Treatment / Q000379:methods*; D013598:Systems Theory; D013808:Therapeutic Community