User views of two psychiatric day hospitals

Psychiatric Day Hospitals for older adults - where have we been and where are we going now?

Considering the increasing use of mental health provision by older adults it is important to assess the efficacy of services that exist as well as identify the particular needs of this client group. This review aims to put psychiatric day hospitals for older adults into a context of current thinking on service provision. It introduces some of the reasons why they were established and the debate...

Do We Need Psychiatric Hospitals?

to follow their predecessors into the rigid acceptance of what was thought to be right. The provision of total community care without any in-patient facilities might eliminate most of the dangers and disadvantages of hospital care. Stigma should be reduced, since people would not 'go away'. Problems would have to be solved in the situation in which they occurred and treatment tried out in reali...

Geriatric day hospitals--the future?

Present-day Adlerian psychiatric practice.

Adlerian psychotherapy has largely followed the lines laid down by Alfred Adler's basic teachings. Adler's technique of public child guidance, first demonstrated in Vienna more than 50 years ago, is now practiced in clinics, guidance centers, and schools in the United States and abroad. New techniques and growing experiences add to the present effectiveness of Adlerian psychiatric practice. In ...

Psychiatric day-care in Birmingham.

The first psychiatric day-hospital in the United Kingdom was established in 1946 through the initiative of Bierer. This innovation was received with some scepticism (Bierer, 1955) and five years passed before a second day-hospital was created. Interest gradually increased, and by 1959 there were at least 38 psychiatric day-hospitals (Farndale, 1961). In the early sixties the movement received a...