An approach to the analysis of activities: the game of chess
Smith, W.H.
Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic 39(1): 93-100
1975
ISSN/ISBN: 0025-9284 PMID: 46152 Document Number: 3631
It is common practice in psychiatric hospitals to employ activities such as sports, games, and creative arts in treatment programs. How the therapeutic role of such activities is regarded, however, hinges on how the treatment process in general is conceptualized. Prevailing treatment philosophies and theoretical persuasions ultimately guide the use of any activity: the characteristics of the patient that are deemed important to modify, the point at which an activity is introduced into a treatment process and for what specific purpose, etc. By the same token, activities comprise only a portion of a therapeutic milieu and may play a much larger role in the treatment process for some patients than for others. However, for whatever uses activities are put in a treatment program and with whatever treatment philosophy prevails, the outline offered here for analyzing the elements of the activities employed may prove helpful, since it offers a comprehensive view of any activity.
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