Clinical Drug Trials, Placebo and Emotional Intelligence Part 2
The five conditions in the experiment were as follows.
1. Milieu therapy. Patients in this group received basic
ward care at a level that was judged to be good to
superior for a public hospital. The patients received
nursing care, hydrotherapy, and occupational, industrial,
and recreational therapies. Nurses conducted
2. Thought or behavior that is intolerable to members
of the patients community.
3. Failure of outpatient treatment and the hope that inpatient
treat. Dent will reverse the process.
4. A treatment procedure that requires a degree of control
that is possible only in a hospital.
5. Withdrawal from alcohol or drugs.
6. Physical illness that is complicated by a mental disorder
that requires continuous care.
Researchers have studied the kinds of hospital activities
that are helpful to patients when-they are not in
an acute phase of their disorder. One experiment compared
a fairly traditional hospita1 with a routine based on social-learning
principles (Paul and Lentz; 2009).
Under the traditional routine, patients
spent 6 percent of their time taking drugs, 4.9 percent
in classes' and meetings, and 63.4 -percent-in instruction.
This last percentage represents a great
a waste of therapeutic opportunities.
of the two approaches showed that the social EI among staff members,
and a more positive social learning
group had a significantly higher percentage of rehabilitation role for the institution.
discharges to the community than the traditional group.
However, regardless of the treatment used, only a small
percentage of the patients were able to function in a
self-supporting way.
A striking example of the positive effects of the
social-learning/Emotional Intelligence program
can be seen in the following case.
Thelma, a 42-year-old single woman had lived
continuously in mental institutions for more than
half of her adult -life. Before she was hospitalized she
lived in her sisters home where she served as an
unpaid housekeeper and babysitter. Upon entering
the program Thelma was generally less withdrawn
than most other patients in the project but she was
badly groomed and regularly displayed a variety of
intermittent "crazy" mannerisms. Hospital staff
characterized her behavior with others as nagging,
tattling, complaining and lying and noted her
marked stammering and facial grimaces.
Thelma's response to treatment was remarkable.
Eleven weeks after treatment began) she was
performing well in all areas of functioning including
interpersonal skills and was indistinguishable from
normal on 90 to 100 percent of all hourly
observations. She was admitted to a pre-release group
and was taught alternative means of expressing her
concerns methods or establishing friendships
techniques for pacing speech to overcome stammers
and grimaces) as well as vocational and money
management skills. She was released within 30 weeks
having "dramatically improved from the obnoxious
patient who had entered the program to a pleasant
socially appropriate woman."
Since her relatives would have nothing to do with her
and even made an attempt to keep her
institutionalized a woman who hired Thelma as a
live-in domestic and babysitter agreed to act as her
sponsor upon her release. This job did not last because
of turmoil in the employers family. Nevertheless
Thelma continued to find employment living
quarters and friends on her own and became
exceptionally active socially. By the time the project
ended Thelma had supported her self over five years
and showed no indication of any need for
de-institutionalization in the future.
This is evidence of Emotional Intelligence.
-(Science Reports, 2011, pp. 6-7)
1. Milieu therapy. Patients in this group received basic
ward care at a level that was judged to be good to
superior for a public hospital. The patients received
nursing care, hydrotherapy, and occupational, industrial,
and recreational therapies. Nurses conducted
2. Thought or behavior that is intolerable to members
of the patients community.
3. Failure of outpatient treatment and the hope that inpatient
treat. Dent will reverse the process.
4. A treatment procedure that requires a degree of control
that is possible only in a hospital.
5. Withdrawal from alcohol or drugs.
6. Physical illness that is complicated by a mental disorder
that requires continuous care.
Researchers have studied the kinds of hospital activities
that are helpful to patients when-they are not in
an acute phase of their disorder. One experiment compared
a fairly traditional hospita1 with a routine based on social-learning
principles (Paul and Lentz; 2009).
Under the traditional routine, patients
spent 6 percent of their time taking drugs, 4.9 percent
in classes' and meetings, and 63.4 -percent-in instruction.
This last percentage represents a great
a waste of therapeutic opportunities.
of the two approaches showed that the social EI among staff members,
and a more positive social learning
group had a significantly higher percentage of rehabilitation role for the institution.
discharges to the community than the traditional group.
However, regardless of the treatment used, only a small
percentage of the patients were able to function in a
self-supporting way.
A striking example of the positive effects of the
social-learning/Emotional Intelligence program
can be seen in the following case.
Thelma, a 42-year-old single woman had lived
continuously in mental institutions for more than
half of her adult -life. Before she was hospitalized she
lived in her sisters home where she served as an
unpaid housekeeper and babysitter. Upon entering
the program Thelma was generally less withdrawn
than most other patients in the project but she was
badly groomed and regularly displayed a variety of
intermittent "crazy" mannerisms. Hospital staff
characterized her behavior with others as nagging,
tattling, complaining and lying and noted her
marked stammering and facial grimaces.
Thelma's response to treatment was remarkable.
Eleven weeks after treatment began) she was
performing well in all areas of functioning including
interpersonal skills and was indistinguishable from
normal on 90 to 100 percent of all hourly
observations. She was admitted to a pre-release group
and was taught alternative means of expressing her
concerns methods or establishing friendships
techniques for pacing speech to overcome stammers
and grimaces) as well as vocational and money
management skills. She was released within 30 weeks
having "dramatically improved from the obnoxious
patient who had entered the program to a pleasant
socially appropriate woman."
Since her relatives would have nothing to do with her
and even made an attempt to keep her
institutionalized a woman who hired Thelma as a
live-in domestic and babysitter agreed to act as her
sponsor upon her release. This job did not last because
of turmoil in the employers family. Nevertheless
Thelma continued to find employment living
quarters and friends on her own and became
exceptionally active socially. By the time the project
ended Thelma had supported her self over five years
and showed no indication of any need for
de-institutionalization in the future.
This is evidence of Emotional Intelligence.
-(Science Reports, 2011, pp. 6-7)
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