Principles and practice of milieu therapy
By: edited by John G. Gunderson, Otto A. Will, Jr., Loren R. Mosher.
Contributors: Gunderson, John G., 1942-; Will, Otto A.; Mosher, Loren R., 1933-; International Conference on the Psychiatric Residential Milieu (1974 : Austen Riggs Center)
Publisher: J. Aronson
Published: 1983
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 189
Subjects: Milieu therapy -- Congresses.; Milieu therapy -- Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Based on the proceedings of the International Conference on the Psychiatric Residential Milieu, held at the Austen Riggs Center in Stockbridge, Mass., Oct. 1974.
Table of contents: title: An overview of modern milieu therapy / John G. Gunderson; title: Comparison of two treatment environments for schizophrenia / Randall J. Wendt ... et al.; title: Therapeutic communities / Gary J. Tucker; title: Evaluating research on milieus / Stanley H. Eldred; title: If and when milieu therapy is therapeutic for schizophrenics / John G. Gunderson; title: Research on the psychiatric milieu / Robert Paul Liberman; title: Characteristics of effective treatment milieus / Robert B. Ellsworth; title: Concepts and new developments in milieu treatment / Richard Almond; title: Ward atomosphere, continuity of treatment, and the mental health system / Sheppard G. Kellam; title: Design of psychiatric milieus / Raymond G. Hunt; title: Therapeutic community as a system for change / Maxwell Jones.