Menninger Develops Criteria for Long-Term Psychiatric Hospitalization

OPEN MINDS The Behavioral Health & Social Service Industry Analyst Industry News The Menninger Clinic has published five criteria that “have been identified to aid in the recognition of psychiatric patients who have been found to benefit from extended hospital treatment. A summary of the criteria, which were published in the April/May/June, 1990 issue of The Case Manager, are listed below: Pervasive and continual problems with self-destructiveness Extraordinarily severe, complex, and unremitting symptomatology Major or multiple treatment complications Incapacitating symptoms which do not respond readily to medication or ECT, requiring extended drug trials or alternative interventions Failure . . .