Informed Treatment: Milieu Management in Psychiatric Hospitals and Residential Treatment Centers

by Nancy Britton Soth

Overview

Informed Treatment is a narrative bibliography that examines the most effective writing in book and periodical literature about inpatient hospitalization and residential treatment. Bringing together writings scattered through areas such as psychiatry, psychology, sociology, nursing and inpatient settings throughout the world, it examines the concepts, treatment models and culture of inpatient settings, provides ways to organize milieu treatment and demonstrates how diagnosis must influence treatment. Informed Treatment analyzes effective techniques used in inpatient settings, and gives new recognition to the emerging role of the patient's family in psychiatric treatment.

The book considers all aspects of the treatment environment: the physical setting, the symbolic meaning of the environment, the ward atmosphere, partial hospitalization, and does not neglect the adjustments necessary for short-term treatment. A remarkable book for making difficult concepts and techniques clear, Informed Treatment promises to become the reference tool for staff development in any institution serving psychiatric patients.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780810832022
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	01/23/1997
Series:	Medical Library Association Series
Pages:	520
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 9.22(h) x 1.36(d)

About the Author

Nancy Britton Soth (M.A., New York University, M.L.S., University of Minnesota) is an administrator at Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota. She has worked in psychiatric hospitals for nearly twenty years in a variety of positions, including director of research and family services coordinator.

Editorial Reviews

Reviewer: Giridhar G. Reddy, MD (Rush University Medical Center)
Description: This book deals with milieu therapy in the treatment of various psychiatric disorders. The author is a mental health librarian currently working as an administrator at Carleton College in Minnesota. She has vast experience in this field as a researcher and an administrator.
Purpose: The purpose is to bring together all the scattered body of literature about milieu therapy and to provide the necessary information for mental health professionals interested in providing this form of treatment.
Audience: The target audience includes mental health professionals managing psychiatric patients, such as psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, and nurses.
Features: This book contains adequate and up-to-date references.
Assessment: This brings together in one book all the rich heritage and writings on milieu therapy. Milieu therapy is about creating an environment that promotes sanity and happiness, which can be used as an effective treatment strategy for dealing with many chronic and disabling psychiatric disorders. Various treatment models in the psychiatric milieu, including organization of treatment and appropriate treatment environment, are sufficiently discussed. This book also deals with ways of adapting milieu therapy for specific patient populations such as children, adolescents, and young adults and for various disorders, including substance abuse, psychotic disorders, personality disorders, and eating disorders. Problems that arise in a therapeutic milieu are highlighted, including ways of handling such problems. This timely and well-written book should serve as essential reading for all mental health professionals.

Doody's Review Service

...a well-written and well-referenced review of the literature...informative and worthwhile reading.

Journal Of Psychosocial Nursing and Mental Health Services

...an exemplary reference book that belongs at the core of every RTC [Residential Treatment Center] library, needs to be by every RTC director's reading chair, and needs to be readily available to all RTC staff.

Residential Treatment For Children and Youth

The author has provided an invaluable service by synthesizing a diverse and scattered body of literature on the subject of milieu management. This volume is intended not only for those who design and carry out inpatient psychiatric treatment but also for "the librarians who inform this effort."

Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic: A Journal for the Mental Health Professions

The author has provided an invaluable service by synthesizing a diverse and scattered body of literature on the subject of milieu management. This volume is intended not only for those who design and carry out inpatient psychiatric treatment but also for "the librarians who inform this effort."

Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic: A Journal for the Mental Health Professions

The author has provided an invaluable service by synthesizing a diverse and scattered body of literature on the subject of milieu management. This volume is intended not only for those who design and carry out inpatient psychiatric treatment but also for "the librarians who inform this effort."

Bulletin Of The Menninger Clinic

5 Stars! from Doody

...a timely and well-written book that should serve as essential reading for all mental health professionals. Five stars..

Doody's Health Sciences Book Review Journal

Written for those who design and work in inpatient psychiatric treatment programs, this volume brings together diverse literature intended to provide strategies for developing and managing therapy. Topics include concepts in milieu therapy and management; applications; treatment models in the psychiatric milieu; the organization of treatment; the creation of the treatment environment; working with specific populations in the milieu; problems in the psychiatric milieu; and techniques for milieu management and therapy. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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