Soteria and other alternatives to acute psychiatric hospitalization: A personal and professional review

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 187, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 142-149

  Mosher, Loren R ^a  

^a Soteria Associates   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEUROLEPTIC AGENT;

ADULT; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEALING; HOSPITAL CARE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MENTAL HOSPITAL; REVIEW; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

ANTIPSYCHOTIC AGENTS; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HOSPITALIZATION; HOSPITALS, PSYCHIATRIC; HUMANS; MILIEU THERAPY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; RESIDENTIAL FACILITIES; RESIDENTIAL TREATMENT; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SCHIZOPHRENIC PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT; SOCIOENVIRONMENTAL THERAPY;

EID: 0033017160     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005053-199903000-00003     Document Type: Review

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