Citation

Normand WC, Fensterheim H, Schrenzel S. Community Ment. Health J. 1967; 3(4): 349-354.

Affiliation

Department of Psychiatry, New York Medical College, Metropolitan Hospital Center, 1901 First Aye., 10029, N.Y., N.Y..

Copyright

(Copyright © 1967, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1007/BF02349234

PMID

24186688

Abstract

Immediate, brief therapy in walk-in clinics is emerging as a major treatment modality for socioeconomically deprived patients. A variety of techniques may be used, such as verbal psychotherapy, medication, and environmental modification, and it is often difficult to select the appropriate method for the particular case. A model is presented that helps to systematize the evaluation procedure. A psychiatrist-social worker joint initial interview leads to a dynamic formulation and to an action formulation, which focuses the data on one of four "levels": situational variables, ego functions, emotional conflicts, or character. The level chosen determines the intervention tactics.

Language: en