Help for Emo ionally Ill
U' Has a Special Unit for Adolescents
By GERALD LUNDY
HE University's Neuropsychiat- their capacities for arousing great their activity centered around the
ric Institute (NPI) was among anxiety" in older patients, friction school, stress and put much weight
the first psychiatric institutions to may occur in such an association, on group and social activities, such
establish a treatment unit solely as parties, games, and picnics, to
for emotionally disturbed adoles- HENCE, in Some cases, this asso- extract the most from the psycho-
cents when the doors of its Adoles- ciation would benefit neither logical benefits of working and
cent Service unit swung open in adolescent nor adult. plaving together, says Dr. Hen-
1956. Dr. Hendrickson says tnat fric- drickson.
The Adolescent Service. says Dr. tion between adult and adolescent For busy hands and th.t "rest-'
Willard Hendrickson, chief of the patients has spurred some hos- less spirit," there are woodshops,
department, symbolizes the "at- pitals, in some instances, to refuse a gymnasium, a pool table, and
tempt to make the greatest pos- adolescents admittance for psychi- swimming pool at Children's Psy-
sible contributions to the people atric care, chiatric Hospital and other recrea-
of the state in this important and These factors were paramount tional activities which the Univer-
previously largely neglected area considerations in a "concerted ef- sity and city offer.
of psychiatric treatment." fort to expand both qualitatively I New methods are continually
Under Dr. Hendrickson, the hos- and quantitatively our treatment being formulated and devised
pital staff of psychiatrists, psy- program for adolescents in the which will enable psychiatrists and
chologists, psychiatric nurses, adult wards," said Dr. Hendrick- psychologists and, in some in-
nurse assistants, social casework- son. stances, social caseworkers, to deal
ers, and occupational and recrea- Today, the Adolescent Service effectively with the problems of
tional therapists is making giant is housed in two units; a ward for the teen-aer, said Dr. Hendrick-
strides toward this goal. boys and a ward for girls. son.
In the boy's ward, there are fif-
Before the physical establish- teen beds in dormitory type rooms, OME attempts have been made,
ment of the Adolescent Service, while the girls ward has the same he says, in the use of group
adolescents were treated in NPI's type roams with ten beds. There psycho-therapy which have proven
adult wards. are also 20 beds in the adult to be valuable for the patient as
wards which are available for well as for the nurse or phychia-
THERE, about 20 beds were set adolescent patients. trist involved by increasing the
aside for them because NPI's latter's understanding of adoles-
director, Dr. Raymond Waggoner, HESE latter patients are those cents and revealing the complexity
recognized the fact that some who find it easy to adjust to and extent of their problems.
adolescents are treated best on the adult environment without Not only does objective logic
an in-patient basis rather than causing conflicts, says Dr. Hen- uphold this view, but a previous
in out-patient diagnostic services drickson. incomplete understanding of ado-
At first glance. this seems to be The beinnin of the adolescent escent emotional problem de-
a desirable procedure: the patients in-patient service called for the mands this special tratment unit.
are treated while living in the hos- development of treatment and The names of teenagers on clin-
pital. Seemingly, there would be therapeutic programs suitable for ical lists of psychiatric institutions
no exceptional need to establish patients bet,, r the ages of 14 supports this need for the adoles-
separate services for adolescents, and 19. cent treatment unit--a need being
However, .a-s Dr. Hendrickson, New ideas were necessary in suet by NPI's Adolescent Service,
ieri us disadvanta es to this pro- planning treatment programs. Ob-
cedure can come into play. Some viously adult treatment programs - -
emotionally disturbed adolescents, could not be superimposed as ado-
he continues, live easily in an all- lescent programs. Again the need N E Wev S T
adult environmitt respondin' e t-sso a tetmc st unit specialized in
fectively to treatment-but there the care of adolescents is empha-
are some who do not fit into such sed.
a situation. Stall members closely connected
Then too, there are the adults v ith the patients have to think
to be considered, sat's Dr. Hen- along lunes that are compatible
drickson. Some "adolescents are with the way that the patient
extremely difficult to treat in this thinks, e said.
en tesroment. Wills thctr tends so
rica to a res.iveness, their pt hsi N LINE with this viiea of "treat-
c I vi r, their need for the nmolt iment adapted to the individual,"
celicilt' bit firn controls, ,nd the srvice has its own school with
spai tchers trained in the in- \
ste tiio of psychologically dis-
Gerald Lundy is a student turotd ehirc.
f 5 e 5 rlism department t Ocr tional and recreational
and a friser mesber sf Th sesrap is's e structured pro-
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