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A Community Group in the State Hospital: A Trainee's Experience

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Steven Novosel
Steven Novosel*
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University of Edinburgh
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It is often felt that group meetings with long term chronically psychotic patients have little therapeutic value and become weekly ‘complaints’ sessions. In this paper I would like to indicate that group work with such a population can be both a therapeutic and valuable training experience. I shall describe a group which I took over a six month period in one of the wards at the State Hospital, Carstairs Junction, Lanark.

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Trainees' Forum
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Bulletin of the Royal College of Psychiatrists , Volume 10 , Issue 5 , May 1986 , pp. 105 - 107
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1986
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