This Article  • References  • Full text PDF  • Reply to article  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Citing articles on HighWire  • Citing articles on Web of Science (4)  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Similar articles in this journal  Social Bookmarking   What's this?

Residential Treatment in a Municipal Hospital Setting

Melvin A. Scharfman, MD; Rita W. Clark, MD

Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1967;17(4):441-447.

	Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text PDF and any section headings.

THERE IS a specific treatment problem, especially in large metropolitan cities, for disturbed adolescents whose destructive actions do not allow them to be maintained in the community, yet for whom state hospitalization does not seem to be the treatment of choice. In general, the available treatment programs in privately endowed institutions are encumbered with long waiting lists,¹ and are often reluctant to accept patients who have already engaged in or who have the potential for antisocial activity. When the project to be reported was initiated, there were virtually no public facilities in the city of New York for long-term, intensive inpatient treatment of adolescents with delinquent behavior. This paper describes the early experience in the establishment and operation of an intensive treatment ward for female adolescents within the structure of a large municipal diagnostic and dispositional hospital service.

The adolescent intensive treatment unit was established in the fall of 1962. . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Brooklyn, NY

From the Department of Psychiatry, State University of New York, Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication May 12, 1967.

Reprint requests to 450 Clarkson Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11203 (Dr. Scharfman).

CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter     What's this?