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Intensive Psychotherapy for Acute Psychiatric Patients in a Day Hospital Setting in Israel

Theoretical Considerations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Y. Fried*
Affiliation:
Tel-Aviv University Medical School; Day Hospital Unit; the Workers' Sick Fund and University of Tel-Aviv Medical School Mental Health Out-Patient Clinic (Ramat Chen)
F. Brüll
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, Tel-Aviv University Medical School; the Workers' Sick Fund and University of Tel-Aviv Medical School Mental Health Out-Patient Clinic (Ramat Chen)
*
Authors' address: Mental Health Clinic, 9 Hatzvi Street, Ramat Hatayassim, Tel-Aviv, Israel

Extract

The psychiatric services in the field of community psychiatry in Israel have developed in a number of directions over the past decade. Following the establishment by the Workers' Sick Fund (Kupat Holim) of a Rehabilitation Unit for chronic psychiatric patients (Wijsenbeek and Lindner (53)) and the opening of a Day Hospital for acute cases in conjunction with a psychiatric hospital (Ramot and Jaffe (45)), a Day Hospital was established in October 1968, at the Out-Patient Mental Health Clinic (Ramat Chen), to serve acute psychiatric patients. This represented the first attempt of its kind in Israel. The professional literature on Day Hospitals, which in the main describes a ‘half-way out’ type of hospital (Farndale (16); Epps and Hanes (14); Kramer (32)), also reports the existence of a ‘half-way in’ type of institution, operating as an autonomous service catering to a particular geographical region, without being attached directly to a mental hospital. This kind of Day Hospital, specifically designed for acute cases, has not yet been tried in Israel.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1972 

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Footnotes

A synopsis of this paper was published in the June 1972 Journal.

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