Paths to the Mental Hospital
Paths to the Mental Hospital
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DOI:
10.1111/j.1540-4560.1955.tb00341.x
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发表时间:
1955-01-01
影响因子:
3.9
通讯作者:
Yarrow, Marian Radke
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作者:
Clausen, John A.;Yarrow, Marian Radke
A major objective in the development of mental health services has been to provide treatment as early as possible in the course of the illness. In order to achieve this objective, it is necessary both that adequate treatment services be available and that they be perceived as necessary by the patients and/or his family. This article focuses on the steps by which hospitalization itself is arrived at. These are clearly two aspects of the same phenomenon which cannot be wholly separated: actions taken depend on what the actors see as the nature of the problem facing them, and in turn perceptions as to the nature of the problem are modified by the actions and interpretations of others involved in the process of dealing with the patient.