Am J Psychiatry 1975; 132:549-551
Copyright © 1975 by American Psychiatric Association
The impact of the psychiatric intensive care unit on patients and staff
H Rosen
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.
