Coexistence of Adolescent and Adult Hospital Units: Organizational Problems
IVAN FRAS M.D.1, and
M. ROBERT WILSON JR. M.D.2
1 Child and adolescent psychiatrist, Broome County Mental Health Clinic, 97 Chestnut Street, Binghamton, N. Y. 13905
2 Section of child and adolescent psychiatry, Mayo Clinic and Mayo Foundation, Rochester, Minn.
Weekly sessions with the chief resident in child and adolescent psychiatry provided direct communication between medical and paramedical staff in an adolescent psychiatric unit organized within the adult psychiatric ward of a general hospital. These sessions ameliorated problems arising from identification of the paramedical staff with the adolescents and the staff's reaction to threatened loss of fulfillment at work.
