title: Are you ready?
abstract: A discharge planning group designed and facilitated by occupational therapy staff in an acute psychiatric treatment setting is described. The purpose of the group is to involve patients in their plans for leaving the hospital and to smooth their transition to the settings to which they are going. Other members of the team, nurses, social workers, as well as psychiatrists, are involved in implementing this program. In this presentation, the procedures used in the group are described, case examples of two patients are discussed, and suggestions for generalizing this model of group process to other settings are made.
authors: Staff Therapist in Occupational Therapy, Psychiatry; and Consultant.
authors: K
authors: K
authors: Moen
authors: M
authors: M
authors: Meacham-Griffiths