Irena Namysłowska, Anna Siewierska

Ethical dilemmas of family therapy in the adolescent psychiatric ward    61-64

Summary

The authors discuss ethical dilemmas concerning family therapy in the adolescent psychiatric unit. Those dilemmas are connected mainly with the medical context of the treatment in the psychiatric institution. They concentrate on ethical questions concerning: medical character of the treatment institution, relations between the patient family and the staff, as well as with the team psychotherapeutic work and limited time of psychiatric hospitalization.