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Murray Blacker, PhD; Leatrice Styrt Schacht, MA

Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1970;23(1):56-60.

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THE STAFF conference in a psychiatric hospital with a therapeutic community organization can and should be a key point in the hospital's decision-making and communication system. It is expected to be modeled in a relatively open and democratic form in which decisions can be made by the group and in which information can be shared in a way which helps eliminate unnecessary anxiety. However, social scientists such as Stanton and Schwartz¹ and Caudill,² who have reported extensively on the functioning of staff conferences, indicated that these meetings were too often negative in their effect. Etzione,³ in his perceptive critical discussion of mental hospital researches, came to the conclusion that the conferences were too often manipulative and unnecessarily anxiety arousing. He questioned if the staff really participated in the decision-making process. Evidently much has to be clarified about the functioning of such meetings in order to help make . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Port Chester, NY

From High Point Hospital, Port Chester, NY.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication Oct 24, 1969.

Doctor-Patient Tensions: Their Measurement and Relationship to Outcome. This five-year research project was jointly supported by the Public Health Service (grants MO-05392 and MH-08018) and The Gralnick Foundation.

Reprint requests to High Point Hospital, Port Chester, NY 10573 (Dr. Blacker).

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