The Psychiatric Home Treatment Service: Preliminary Report of Five Years of Clinical Experience

Treatment of Alcoholic Families with Nurse Home Visits

“…as therapeutic personnel for the primary treatment of psychological problems (11, 59). The most documented experience is that of the Boston group (30, 31). After five years of experience, they were using nurses, social workers, psychologists, and psychiatrists interchangibly in many therapeutic home visits.…”

“…Several programs have implemented such an approach through home visits by psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, and public health nurses (29, 30, 31). The aim of such home therapy has been to deal with the basic social pathology of the family (e.g., alcoholism) which may be little helped by hospitalization or erratic clinic attendance.…”

The psychiatric nonhospital: A model for change

“…A majority of patients with families who are at the point of admission to psychiatric hospitals can be effectively treated at home, as demonstrated by the studies of Langsley, et al (1968), Rittenhouse (1970), and others (Friedman, et al, 1964;Pasamanick, et al, 1967). Intervention is carried out by mobile treatment teams who simultaneously work with the social system disturbance and the illness of the identified patient.…”

Territoriality in man a comparison of behavior in home and hospital.

“…A SHIFf OF TERRITORIES Reports on observation and treatment of the disturbed family in the home set ting have been increasingly frequent 3• 9 and home visits have even been used to prevent hospitalization. 4 All reports comment that behavior which appears maladaptive in the doctor's office or hos pital often makes sense when viewed in the home.…”