RT Journal
A1 Almond R, Keniston K, Boltax S
T1 PAtient value change in milieu therapy
JF Archives of General Psychiatry
JO Archives of General Psychiatry
YR 1969
FD March 1
VO 20
IS 3
SP 339
OP 351
DO 10.1001/archpsyc.1969.01740150083012
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archpsyc.1969.01740150083012
AB OBSERVERS and practitioners of psychotherapy have frequently emphasized the role of patient values and value changes in the process of treatment. A series of descriptive and anthropological studies during the past two decades have demonstrated the existence of ward or hospital "cultures" in a variety of settings. These institutional value systems, it has been argued, strongly affect the attitudes of patients, and exert great power over patient behavior and prognosis.1-5 Recognition of such cultures has led both to a more sophisticated examination of the psychiatric hospital as a complex organization, and to a more self-conscious use of the hospital community as a major therapeutic instrument.At the same time, a small number of investigators have begun to examine the specific effects of therapeutic values on the values and attitudes of patients. Most formal studies have examined value phenomena during individual