Therapy Begins at Home: The Psychiatric House Call Journal Articles

abstract

• The house call is a valuable but underused component of community psychiatric care. A review of home visits conducted by the staff of a community mental health service over a 12 month period identified four situations in which a home visit is useful: getting reluctant patients to enter therapy, conducting a comprehensive assessment, strengthening a support network, and maintaining patients in the community when their condition has deteriorated. Making psychiatric house calls requires some additional skills on the part of therapists and offers residents valuable training experience.

authors

• Kates, Nicholas
• Webb, Stephen
• Lepage, Patricia

status

• published 

publication date

• November 1991

has subject area

• 11 Medical and Health Sciences (FoR)
• 17 Psychology and Cognitive Sciences (FoR)
• Aged (MeSH)
• Community Mental Health Centers (MeSH)
• Female (MeSH)
• Hospitalization (MeSH)
• House Calls (MeSH)
• Humans (MeSH)
• Male (MeSH)
• Mental Disorders (MeSH)
• Middle Aged (MeSH)
• Personality Assessment (MeSH)
• Psychiatry (Science Metrix)
• Psychotherapy (MeSH)
• Retrospective Studies (MeSH)
• Social Environment (MeSH)

published in

• Canadian Journal of Psychiatry  Journal

keywords

• Aged
• Community Mental Health Centers
• Female
• Hospitalization
• House Calls
• Humans
• Male
• Mental Disorders
• Middle Aged
• Personality Assessment
• Psychotherapy
• Retrospective Studies
• Social Environment

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1177/070674379103600909

PubMed ID

• 1773403

start page

• 673

end page

• 676

volume

• 36

issue

• 9