Group Work in Mental Hospitals.

The article decribes the types of group work to be adopted in mental hospitals in Great Britain for pyschiatric treatment. This papers tried to expressed that it is impossible to consider group treatment in psychiatric hospitals without referring to the social structure of the hospital as a whole. Psychoanalytic group is for out-patient groups of selected patients with psychoneurotic problems and familiar with conceptual thinking. Ward meetings involve 60 patients with a staff who comes in contact with them. Family group is a case for every patient seen in relation to his family, in which the family should be involved at the initial interview. In activity groups, five patients are formed into a group and activity program are developed within their competence.