Intensive psychiatric care for adolescents and young adults: a model for treatment and evaluation

The authors' model for the hospital treatment of severely disordered adolescents and young adults calls for a categorization of the patient's major characteristics that are relevant to treatment along six axes: symptoms and signs, previous course of the disorder, social functioning, work or school functioning, family or other living situation, and sense of identity. They present a case study of a 19-year-old male patient to demonstrate how the model works.