Building alliance between the family and the institution.
A social work model for building a family-institution alliance as distinguished from a therapeutic alliance is presented. The model is based on a conceptualization of the family's needs at four successive stages in the early period of its relationship with the institution, beginning with the family's decision to admit a family member and concluding with an assessment of the type of therapeutic alliance indicated for the family. A review of the pertinent literature is also presented.
D006744:Hospital Bed Capacity, 100 to 299; D006778:Hospitals, Psychiatric; D006801:Humans; D007326:Institutionalization; D008960:Models, Psychological; D011368:Professional-Family Relations; D012949:Social Work, Psychiatric; D013781:Texas