Therapy Begins at Home: The Psychiatric House Call

Kates, Nick; Webb, Steve; Lepage, Patricia

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“…Dramatic and chaotic personal environments are seen with some types of psychiatric illness, especially the senile squalor syndrome (Shaw & Shah, 1996), but also with other psychiatric disorders including schizophrenia. Visits to the domestic environment of patients are part of good community psychiatric care (Kates et al, 1991). Professional staff are routinely expected to assess both the appropriateness of particular living environments and how they might reflect an individual's mental state.…”

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The environment psychiatric patients create for themselves: the varying perceptions of professional staff

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Aims and MethodsA pilot study was undertaken to investigate whether there was evidence that professional staffs' perception of a patient's environment were significantly altered by certain variables.ResultsGender and, to a lesser extent, age were found to be variables that significantly affect the perception of a patient's personal environment.Clinical ImplicationsPsychiatrists and other mental health professionals should be aware that there may be significant differences between the way individual professionals perceive the same visual environment. Psychiatry may benefit from future links with environmental psychology research.

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Around-the-clock mobile psychiatric crisis intervention: Another effective alternative to psychiatric hospitalization

Reding

Raphelson²

1995

Community Ment Health J

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This retrospective study evaluates the effect of the addition of a mobile psychiatrist to a 24-hour crisis intervention team, on the number of admissions, to the local state and private hospitals, of residents of the team's catchment area. During the Program period, the psychiatrist was available at the site of the crisis to provide immediate psychiatric treatment. The number of admissions to the hospitals during the Program period was then compared to those of the corresponding periods of the two previous years and of the year after, by means of a time series statistical analysis. When the on-site services of a psychiatrist were added to the mobile crisis intervention program a sharp decrease in state hospital admissions took place, without any increase in private hospital admissions. This decrease was followed by a definite rebound, after the on-site services of the psychiatrist were terminated, and throughout the following year.

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Home visits: Psychiatrists' attitudes and practice patterns

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Raphelson²,

Montgomery

1994

Community Ment Health J

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Although home visits by psychiatrists have been shown to be an effective treatment strategy, the practice is not a common one in the United States. A survey of psychiatrists (n = 212) examined their attitudes toward home visits and their recent practice patterns. The researchers hypothesized that psychiatrists employed by community mental health centers were more likely to have a positive attitude toward home visits and were more likely to treat patients in their own homes than psychiatrists not working at such centers. This hypothesis was not confirmed. While a majority of the respondents agreed that home visits had diagnostic and treatment value, only 15 percent had made a home visit in the past year.

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Therapy Begins at Home: The Psychiatric House Call

Cited by 4 publications

References 11 publications

The environment psychiatric patients create for themselves: the varying perceptions of professional staff

The environment psychiatric patients create for themselves: the varying perceptions of professional staff

Around-the-clock mobile psychiatric crisis intervention: Another effective alternative to psychiatric hospitalization

Home visits: Psychiatrists' attitudes and practice patterns

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