Adult inpatient psychiatric milieu

The program offers stabilization and treatment for adults over 16 years of age. The inpatient service offers short-term admissions for crisis stabilization, assessments of a variety of mental health spheres and coordination with community resources for follow up treatment and community support after discharge. Care provided includes crisis intervention, individual support and milieu management. The inpatient units have therapeutic links with the mental health community and integrate the discharge planning with the community agencies and their personal.

While the milieu of an inpatient facility is considered a treatment modality, extant literature focuses on the staff's role in creating the milieu rather than the patient's perception of it. Not since Goffman's Asylums has there been an in-depth examination of the phenomenal world of the hospitalized psychiatric patient. In this study, eight inpatients ages 23 to 58 on the acute psychiatric unit of a metropolitan general hospital participated in phenomenological interviews about their experience of the environment. The essential meaning of the hospital was refuge from self-destructiveness. Universally, patients perceived peer-administered "therapy" as the most beneficial aspect of their hospitalization.

Skip to search form Skip to main content. Caesar Published The patient experience, or patient satisfaction, is becoming one of the most important measures that healthcare systems look at when they are judging the efficiency and effectiveness of the services being provided. Mental health services are no different, and in fact, it could be argued that providers of mental health care have to work harder to ensure an exemplary patient experience. View PDF. Save to Library.

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