A perspective on the brief hospitalization of whole families |
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| Authors: | John Brendler |
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| Institution: | Senior Clinician, Co-ordinator of the Family Apartment Treatment Team, Child and Family Inpatient Service, Philadelphia Child Guidance Clinic, 2 Children's Center, 34th Street and Civic Center Boulevard, Philadelphia, PA 19104, U.S.A. |
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| Abstract: | This paper reviews our experiences as an interdisciplinary team treating entire families who live in our hospital apartments. Over 100 families have now been treated. The therapeutic effort is based on the expectation that families have the capacity to employ staff support and skills, to solve problems and move competently through transitions of increasing complexity. We have found that it is essential to capitalize on the crisis that hospitalization entails in order to help families take more effective charge of their own lives. |
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