Hostname: page-component-7479d7b7d-8zxtt Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-07-13T20:05:54.721Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Increasing Engagement of Adult Psychiatric Patients in a Day-Hospital

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 June 2009

Ian Robertson
Ian Robertson
Affiliation:
Psychology Department, Institute of Psychiatry and Department of Psychology, Farnborough Hospital, Kent
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

To increase levels of activity of patients and residents in institutions is seen as an important aim. Work in old people's homes shows that this can be achieved by supplying residents with simple recreational activities. It has also been shown with profoundly mentally handicapped adults that training staff to pay attention to working residents and largely ignore non-active ones leads to increases in resident activity. This study replicates both these results with adult psychiatric day patients. Implications for staff training are discussed.

Type
Research Article
Information
Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy , Volume 7 , Issue 2 , April 1979 , pp. 25 - 30
Copyright
Copyright © British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies 1979

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Jenkins, J., Felce, D., Lunt, B. and Powell, L. (1977). “Increasing engagement in activity of residents in old people's homes by providing recreational materials.” Behav. Res. & Ther., 15, 429–434.Google Scholar
Jenkins, J. (1978). Unpublished data.Google Scholar
Meichenbaum, D. H., Bowers, K. S. and Ross, R. R. (1968).“Modification of classroom behaviour of institutionalized female adolescent offenders”. Behav. Res. & Ther., 6, 343–353.Google Scholar
Porterfield, J., Blunden, R. and Blewitt, E. (1977). “Improving environments for profoundly handicapped adults: Establishing staff routines for high client engagement.” (Submitted for publication).Google Scholar
Raynes, N. V., Pratt, M. W. and Ross, S. (1977). “Aides involvement in decision-making and the quality of care in institutional settings”. Am. J. ment. Def., 81, 570–577.Google ScholarPubMed
Tizzard, B., Philps, J. and Plewis, I. (1976). “Staff behaviour in pre-school centres”. J. Child Psychol. & Psychiat., 17, 21–33.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Wing, J. (1967). “Social treatment, rehabilitation and management”. Ch. VII in Recent Developments in Schizophrenia. Coppen, & Walk, (Eds.) R.M.P.A.Google Scholar
Submit a response

Comments

No Comments have been published for this article.