Effects of 3 levels of staff disciplinary intervention on small group morale, performance, and leadership were examined in an inpatient ward of a mental hospital. The results indicate that the 3 areas of group functioning were not differentially modified by the treatment conditions. The findings are discussed in terms of the character of staff reward and punishment of group actions and more gen...

This article describes the multiple roles that families can play in the psychiatric rehabilitation process and suggests ways for professionals to collaborate with them. The authors discuss the family's experience of loss and their process of recovery; their caregiving role; their role in supporting other families; their teaching and educational role; their advocacy role; their role as researche...

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Background In our psychiatric hospital we have a guideline in order to regulate the use of coercitive measures (isolation in specials rooms and use of safety straps). These measures are the last kind of intervention we use. The guideline defines us the procedure for using the different measures, nursing and medical cares, controls, observation, etc. In this work we analyze the use of coercive m...

The association of psychiatric disorder with endocrine disturbance is well recognized and has been extensively described in the literature, particularly in relation to thyroid disorder. Nearly 100 cases of myxoedema with psychosis have been described since the Clinical Society of London reported mental changes in myxoedema in 1888 (Logothetis, 1963), and it is fairly frequently seen in clinical...