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The American Journal of Psychiatry, VOL. 132, No. 5

REGULAR ARTICLES | May 01, 1975

The impact of the psychiatric intensive care unit on patients and staff

Am J Psychiatry 1975;132:549-551.

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Inpatient crisis intervention units have many of the characteristics of medical/surgical intensive care units. The author believes that the environment of these psychiatric intensive care units serves as an important source of stress and may increase the patient's symptomatology and impair the therapeutic effectiveness of the staff. He suggests some modifications in the environment that may ameliorate these effects.

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