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How Important is the Assessment of Social Skills in Current Long-Stay In-patients?

An Evaluation of Clinical Response to Needs for Assessment, Treatment, and Care in a Long-Stay Psychiatric In-patient Population

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

I. G. Pryce ,
R. D. Griffiths ,
R. M. Gentry ,
I. C. T. Hughes ,
L. R. Montague ,
S. E. Watkins ,
J. Champney-Smith  and
B. M. McLackland
I. G. Pryce*
Affiliation:
Whitchurch Hospital, Cardiff
R. D. Griffiths
Affiliation:
Whitchurch Hospital, Cardiff
R. M. Gentry
Affiliation:
Whitchurch Hospital, Cardiff
I. C. T. Hughes
Affiliation:
Whitchurch Hospital, Cardiff
L. R. Montague
Affiliation:
Whitchurch Hospital, Cardiff
S. E. Watkins
Affiliation:
Whitchurch Hospital, Cardiff
J. Champney-Smith
Affiliation:
Whitchurch Hospital, Cardiff
B. M. McLackland
Affiliation:
Bridgewater Hospital, Eccles, Greater Manchester
*
∗Tegfan Day Hospital, Whitchurch Hospital, Cardiff CF4 7XB
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Abstract

Service response to problems in 20 clinical and social competence areas was assessed in 156 long-stay in-patients, using the Needs for Care Assessment (NFC). Although there were few unmet needs for treatment, over 200 instances of unmet needs for the assessment of social skills were found, and reasons for this are discussed, as is the importance of social-skills assessment in this group. In around a third of the sample most of the social-skill areas in the NFC were not applicable.

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Research Article
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 162 , Issue 4 , April 1993 , pp. 498 - 502
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1993 

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