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This programme is closely integrated with the correspondence material. It illustrates different ideologies of treatment to be found in three wards of a mental hospital. The implications of each ide...ology for relations between staff and with patients are implicit in the interviews with psychiatrists, nurses and other professional workers. Although the main body of the programme is devoted to interviews, we hear something of a patient's perception of hospital staff and see part of a session in which a patient discusses his case with a group of doctors. The programme is divided into four parts: (1) Villa 10 - The Use of Drugs; (2) Villa 21 - The Psychoanalytic Approach; (3) Woodside Villa - Therapeutic Community; (4) A Ward Staff Meeting - H Division.
This programme is closely integrated with the correspondence material. It illustrates different ideologies of treatment to be found in three wards of a mental hospital. The implications of each ide...ology for relations between staff and with patients are implicit in the interviews with psychiatrists, nurses and other professional workers. Although the main body of the programme is devoted to interviews, we hear something of a patient's perception of hospital staff and see part of a session in which a patient discusses his case with a group of doctors. The programme is divided into four parts: (1) Villa 10 - The Use of Drugs; (2) Villa 21 - The Psychoanalytic Approach; (3) Woodside Villa - Therapeutic Community; (4) A Ward Staff Meeting - H Division.
| Module code and title: | D203, Decision making in Britain |
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| Item code: | D203; 10 |
| First transmission date: | 28-05-1972 |
| Published: | 1972 |
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| Duration: | 00:24:21 |
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| Producer: | Michael Philps |
| Contributors: | Donald Schofield; Mary Sutton |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Keyword(s): | Interviews; Mental hospital; Nurses; Psychiatrists |
| Footage description: | Excerpt from BBC film Escape from sanity featuring Mary Sutton and Donald Schofield, both mental patients. Dr Dominion describes his role and activities as a consultant psychiatrist. He describes the induction of patients, their state at the time and drug therapy in brief. He describes the chain of responsibility within the team of which he is the head. Sister Henson, ward sister and charge nurse Mr Maccahill describe their roles in the hospital administration and medical staff. They describe the way in which they complement the doctors, those responsible for decisions on treatment. Miss Robertson, an occupational therapist, now describes her role in the medical team caring for a group of the mentally sick. Student nurses are also interviewed not only on their own appreciation of their roles but on the role of the nurse in the decision making process. Dr Conran, a registrar psychiatrist, and Mr Theobald, a charge nurse in the same unit, describe their roles and activities in a unit relying on psychoanalytic approaches rather than on drug therapy. Dr Snape, medical assistant psychiatrist, describes group therapy treatment briefly. He describes his role. Mr Atkin, charge nurse in the therapeutic community contrasts his roles and activities (as Dr Snape has done) with those of nurses in other wards pursuing different methods of treatment. Further extract from Escape from sanity featuring Dr Heyward, Dr Conran and Brian Jones, the latter being a mental patient. The doctors talk to Jones and ask questions. Credits. |
| Master spool number: | 6HT/70257 |
| Production number: | 00521_2207 |
| Videofinder number: | 3408 |
| Available to public: | no |
