Description
Book SynopsisThe book examines the implications of shorter stays for the practice of inpatient psychotherapy. The contributors describe techniques that inpatient psychotherapists can use to remain therapeutically effective despite increased pressure from managed care companies and the threat of malpractice suits.
Trade Review Less Time to Do More is a telling review of current approaches to inpatient psychiatry; one in which insurers ask us to treat patients as objects to be cleverly and quickly maneuvered into conforming behavior and to overlook the possibility that they may be interesting persons overwhelmed by futile attempts to deal with conflicts beyond their abilities to manage.
* The New England Journal of Medicine *
The book has been well-edited so that there is little redundancy across chapters. Both the novice clinician and the experienced hospital psychiatrist will find a good deal of clinical wisdom on the pages of this fine new volume, and it will serve equally well as a text for residents assigned to inpatient rotations and as a reference book for the busy inpatient clinician.
* American Journal of Psychiatry *
This is a quality book, useful for psychotherapeutically disciplined trainees as an overview of philosophy and techniques that offer enhanced treatment effectiveness.
* Doody's Journal *
Table of Contents The Modalities. Application of therapeutic community principles in short-stay units. Integrating somatic and psychological treatment in inpatient settings. Individual psychodynamic psychotherapy. Family treatment during brief hospitalization. Group psychotherapy. Inpatient cognitive-behavior therapy of depression. Special Populations. Inpatient psychotherapy with chronically mentally ill patients. Inpatient psychotherapy with alcoholic patients. Patients with eating disorders. Treating concurrent medical and psychiatric illness. Adolescent inpatient psychotherapy. Geriatric patients. Patients with severe personality disorders. Residency training in psychotherapy on acute inpatient treatment services. Afterword.
