[The function of team-meetings for treatment teams on child and adolescent psychiatric wards].
In the daily work of multidisciplinary teams on child and adolescent psychiatric wards team-meetings play a central role to coordinate various treatment activities. In medical literature studies on the topic are lacking, and only few articles were found. The authors explore by a descriptive-hermeneutic analysis the numerous functions of meetings for the treatment team. To them belong catharsis, containment, reflection, regulation and integration. Psychodynamic, group dynamical and institutional factors will be described regarding their influence on the therapy management. Issues of power in institutions will be comprised in the discussion. The dialectical tension between professionalism and emotionality in the work with patients especially from the borderline-spectrum as well as between unity and diversity within the treatment team in regard to the different roles of each and everyone team member will be presented. Hints at how to manage these tensions will be given to preserve the therapeutical milieu on the ward.
Branik
Emil
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Allgemeines Krankenhaus Harburg, Kinder- und Jugenpsychiatrie und -psychotherapie, Hamburg. emil.branik@ak-harburg.lbk-hh.de
Meng
Heiner
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D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002653:Child Behavior Disorders / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D003674:Defense Mechanisms; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000628:therapy*; D009769:Object Attachment; D010043:Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care; D010347:Patient Care Planning; D010348:Patient Care Team; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D011567:Psychiatric Department, Hospital; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy