The community meeting: a comparative study

Rubin, Ronald S.

doi:10.1176/ajp.136.5.708

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“…The old town meeting had a similar function (Rubin, 1979). The use of the community meeting in psychiatry began with Thomas F. Main's (1946) introduction of a therapeutic community at Northfield Military Hospital in Birmingham where he conceived a therapeutic setting with a spontaneous and emotionally structured (rather than a medically dictated) organization in which all staff engaged.…”

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The Violence Prevention Community Meeting: A Multi-Site Study

Lanza

Ridenour

Hendricks

et al. 2016

Archives of Psychiatric Nursing

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Objective The Violence Prevention Community Meeting (VPCM) is a specialized form of community meeting in which avoiding violence and promoting non-violent problem solving and interpersonal civility are focal points. A nationwide study to assess the VPCM as an effective intervention to reduce workplace violence was undertaken. Participants Seven acute locked psychiatric units of the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) throughout the United States participated in the study. Methods All patients and all staff on the seven in-patient locked psychiatry units participated in the intervention (VPCM) or as a control (treatment as usual). The study was 21 weeks at each site. The three time periods were pre-treatment weeks 1 – 3, treatment weeks 4 – 18, and post-treatment weeks 19 – 21. The VPCM was conducted during the treatment weeks. Results Overall rates of aggression declined by 0.6% (95%CI: −5.6%, 6.5%; nonsignificant) per week in the intervention hospitals and by 5.1% (95%CI: 0.4%, 9.6%; significant) per week for the control hospitals. Conclusions Aggression decreased for both the intervention and control hospitals which could be due to enrollment in a research study and thus being more aware of their ability to address workplace violence at their site.

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The Violence Prevention Community Meeting: A Multi-Site Study

Lanza

Ridenour

Hendricks

et al. 2016

Archives of Psychiatric Nursing

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Anti-therapeutic dimensions of a community meeting in a therapeutic milieu

Bernard

1983

Psych Quart

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A central feature of many inpatient settings, especially those that attempt to be "therapeutic communities," is the community meeting. Such meetings are often quite large and difficult to manage, and therefore susceptible to confusion and chaos. The present article documents the difficulties associated with a community meeting in a particular hospital setting, which is often psychonoxious for patients and debilitating of staff morale. The need to define achievable tasks that are commonly understood and agreed upon is addressed. The confusion and paralysis that results when roles are not clearly delineated is described, as is the destructive potential of not carefully managing the various boundaries that define the relationship between the community meeting and the context in which it is conducted. Finally, the danger of insufficient structure in a community meeting is illustrated. Suggestions for conducting successful meetings are offered.

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A new format for the community meeting

Berczeller¹

1984

Psych Quart

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A new and more elaborate format of the Community Meeting was introduced in order to enhance patients' growth, by diminishing their regression into symbiotic dependency and by providing an opportunity for leadership and initiative, for self-reliance and self-efficiency. At the same time, the C.M. provided an opportunity for the staff to change its role and self-image of a protective, patronizing authority figure to one involving a more equal and more democratic relationship with the patients.

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The community meeting: a comparative study

Cited by 10 publications

References 5 publications

The Violence Prevention Community Meeting: A Multi-Site Study

The Violence Prevention Community Meeting: A Multi-Site Study

Anti-therapeutic dimensions of a community meeting in a therapeutic milieu

A new format for the community meeting

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