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[Intervention gerontology: remarks from the psychiatric viewpoint].
Zeitschrift Fur Gerontologie
|March 1, 1979
Summary
Intervention is a preventive measure, particularly behavior therapy, aimed at influencing personal development. It addresses psychiatric needs and crises through immediate medical care or long-term institutional support.
Area of Science:
- Psychiatry
- Behavioral Science
- Public Health
Context:
- Psychiatric care necessitates timely interventions for acute needs and crises.
- Long-term institutional provision is often required for sustained psychiatric support.
- Intervention strategies must consider individual disposition and environmental factors.
Purpose:
- To define intervention as a preventive measure, emphasizing its behavioral therapeutic basis.
- To explore the role of intervention in influencing biographical development.
- To outline the scope of intervention programs in addressing multidimensional aspects of psychiatric care.
Summary:
- Intervention is conceptualized as a preventive strategy, primarily informed by behavioral therapy, designed to shape biographical development.
- It addresses immediate psychiatric needs and crises, necessitating either up-to-date medical therapy or long-term institutional care.
- Intervention programs focus on the multidimensional disposition, ecological context, and ongoing information needs of individuals and their social environment.
Impact:
- Highlights the preventive potential of behavioral therapeutic interventions in psychiatry.
- Emphasizes the need for tailored approaches considering individual and environmental factors.
- Informs the development of comprehensive psychiatric care models integrating immediate and long-term strategies.