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The American Journal of Psychiatry, VOL. 127, No. 10

Articles | April 01, 1971

Avoiding Mental Hospital Admission: A Follow-Up Study

DONALD G. LANGSLEY; PAVEL MACHOTKA; KALMAN FLOMENHAFT

Am J Psychiatry 1971;127:1391-1394.

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Professor and Chairman, Department of Psychiatry, University of California School of Medicine, Davis, Calif. 95616

Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of California, Santa Cruz

Assistant Professor, School of Social Work, University of Maryland, Baltimore

1971, American Psychiatric Association

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Three hundred patients requiring immediate hospitalization were randomly assigned to outpatient family crisis therapy (FCT) or were admitted to a university psychiatric hospital. Post-treatment follow-up showed that patients treated without admission were less likey to be hospitalized after treatment and that their hospitalization was significantly shorter. At both six and 18 months, FCT patients were doing as well as the hospitalized patients on two measures of social adaptation and were managing crises more efficiently.

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