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The Response to Group Psychotherapy of Aged Recent Admissions Compared with Long-Term Mental Hospital Patients

Published Online:https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.123.10.1251

The effect of one year of group psychotherapy upon two types of geriatric patients in a state mental hospital was tested in a controlled study of long-term patients who had aged in the hospital, among whom a diagnosis of schizophrenia was prevalent, and recently admitted aged patients, among whom a diagnosis of chronic brain syndrome was prevalent. Improvement appeared to be more pronounced among the long-term patients, although the results indicated that group psychotherapy was beneficial to both groups.

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