The predischarge group as a forum for working through problems of separation-individuation in long-term adolescent inpatient psychiatric treatment.
This paper examines a predischarge group in a long-term adolescent psychiatric hospital as an arena for working through what might be called the fourth process of separation- individuation--the first being when the infant "hatches" from a symbiotic membrane to become an individuated toddler, the second in adolescence, and the third on admission to the psychiatric hospital.
D000293:Adolescent; D000298:Adolescent, Hospitalized / Q000523:psychology*; D001010:Anxiety, Separation; D006778:Hospitals, Psychiatric; D006801:Humans; D007207:Individuation; D010351:Patient Discharge; D011615:Psychotherapy, Group; D014481:United States