Acting Up (and Out) on the Unit: Psychotherapy Training in the Inpatient Setting Through the Concept of Enactments

Inpatient child and adolescent psychiatry is a core training venue in medical student and graduate medical education. There is a storied history of psychotherapy training in this setting, yet contemporary trends that have radically altered the inpatient landscape at times make this history seem remote and distant. Reduced patient lengths of stay, inpatient faculty lengths of tenure, and related reductions in expectations for attainable care goals can hinder the incorporation of psychotherapy skills training in the inpatient environment.

Source: Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry - October 1, 2018 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Timothy Rice, Nathaniel Donson Tags: Clinical Perspectives 63 Source Type: research