Long-term hospital treatment: a 25-year study.

Findings from a 25-year study of admissions to a single long-term private psychiatric inpatient facility document a sharp decline in average age and an increase in concurrent diagnoses of substance abuse and personality disorders. In this case, long-term private inpatient care has survived the significant changes in mental health policy and funding practices of the past quarter century, but has shifted its focus from a more general psychiatric caseload to the seriously disturbed adolescent or young adult patient. There are numerous factors which determine every aspect of hospital treatment.

Nicotine addiction in the psychiatric hospital: final report.

The following facts are now accepted by everyone with any sense of objectivity. One, that there is an entity known as nicotine addiction and that smoking is such an addiction. Two, that this addiction is related to more preventable deaths than any other disease in the United States.

Cultural aspects of the psychiatric hospital.

How a psychiatric hospital may be viewed will depend on how its professionals think about the origins and treatment of the mental disorders. If the illness is considered physical in origin, the hospital dealing with it will give medications and apply physical methods of therapy with the aim of discharging the patient rapidly. If one regards the mental disorder as having social origins the institution will deal with its social factors as important to the therapeutic process.

The socially-oriented psychiatric hospital.

The programs of psychiatric hospitals illustrate the differences we have about the origins and treatment of mental illness. They reflect the conflicts which divide us into camps. Most hospitals today are biologically oriented and their programs are short-term in nature.