title: Milieu therapy: a therapeutic loophole.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The confusion over, and ultimate demise of, milieu therapy.
  
  
  METHODS
  Literature review.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To chronicle the conceptual problems and other events leading to the decline in the use of milieu therapy.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Inpatient nurses would do best to leave the concept of milieu therapy behind and focus on clarifying how specific nursing interventions are operationalized and tied to patient outcomes.
authors.affiliation: Rush College of Nursing, Chicago, IL, USA.
authors.forename: K R
authors.initials: KR
authors.lastname: Delaney
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D008884:Milieu Therapy / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards / Q000639:trends; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care; D011568:Psychiatric Nursing / Q000379:methods*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results