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Treatment of Childhood SchizophreniaA Three-Year Comparison of Day and Residental Treatment
WILLIAM GOLDFARB, MD;
NATHAN GOLDFARB, PhD;
RUTH C. POLLACK, MA
Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1966;14(2):119-128.
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IN THE PAST two decades, the climate of professional activity with schizophrenic children has been dominated by therapeutic intention. Therapeutic procedures which have been employed include individual psychotherapy, drug therapy, education, and even the precisely defined procedures of instrumental conditioning. The major trend, however, has been toward the most comprehensive programs of corrective treatment, popularly termed milieu therapy.
Milieu therapy uses all the known tactics of individual therapy. Most significantly, however, it deliberately contacts the disordered child 24 hours a day with the ambitious goal of enhancing ego growth through the meaningful use of psychosocial processes. Generally speaking, the concept of milieu therapy has evolved within the organizational framework of residential treatment, implying round-the-clock therapeutic interaction with the child for seven days, each week, for 12 months of the year and over long periods of time. Under such circumstances, the child
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Author Affiliations
BRONX, NY
From the Henry Ittleson Center for Child Research, Bronx, NY. Columbia University, Psychoanalytic Clinic for Training and Research (Dr. W. Goldfarb) and the Computer Center, Hofstra University, Hempstead, Long Island, NY (Dr. N. Goldfarb).
Footnotes
Submitted for publication June 24, 1965.
Reprint requests to 5050 Iselin Ave, Bronx, NY 10471 (Dr. W. Goldfarb).
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