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Developing Practice on a Ward for Adolescents with Psychiatric Disorders

Centre for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Oslo, Norway

The therapeutic principles and practice on a psychiatric inpatient unit for adolescents are described. The practice has grown out of applications of ‘multisystemic treatment’ principles. The major challenges have been to ensure the formulation of concrete goals for treatment from the perspective of the adolescents and their parents, and ensuring that gains made on the ward can be generalized to local networks. The use of inpatient family therapy integrated with weekends at home, while the adolescent is an inpatient on the ward, is described.

Key Words: adolescents • conduct disorder • family therapy • inpatient psychiatric treatment • multisystemic therapy principles

Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry, Vol. 6, No. 1, 151-163 (2001)
DOI: 10.1177/1359104501006001012


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