[Couples and families emergency/crisis consultation: emergency patterns and treatment assessment].
Since the opening in 2003 of the Couple & Family Consultation Unit (UCCF) at Prangins Hospital, we have met urgent demands and observed that the suffering systems (i.e., couples and families) couldn't face any waiting period. So in 2007 an Emergency/Crisis Facility was created, based on the hypothesis that there is no contra-indication to systemic emergency care, if one understands and structures both crisis and treatment. We studied the suffering population in demand and the emergency/crisis issues and assessed therapy efficiency. Then we observed that treating suffering systems in emergency does produce therapeutic gain in terms of crisis resolution and patients' satisfaction. Those treatments refer to public health issues, as considered the human, social and financial cost of couples/families dysfunctions.
Unité de conservation pour le couple et la familie, Hôpital psychiatriques de Prangins. sonia.leon-giraldo@hospvd.ch
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León Giraldo
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D003419:Crisis Intervention / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D004637:Emergency Services, Psychiatric / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D005190:Family / Q000523:psychology*; D054541:Family Conflict; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand; D006778:Hospitals, Psychiatric; D006801:Humans; D008016:Life Change Events; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D018454:Spouses / Q000523:psychology; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000628:therapy*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D013557:Switzerland / Q000453:epidemiology; D016896:Treatment Outcome