Riverview Hospital for Children and Youth. Richard J. Wiseman

      

      RIVERVIEW HOSPITAL

      FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTH

      A DRIFTLESS CONNECTICUT SERIES BOOK

      This book is a 2015 selection in the Driftless Connecticut Series, for an outstanding book in any field on a Connecticut topic or written by a Connecticut author.

      RIVERVIEW HOSPITAL

      FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTH

       A Culture of Promise

      . . .

      RICHARD J. WISEMAN

      WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY PRESS

       Middletown, Connecticut

      Wesleyan University Press

      Middletown CT 06459

       www.wesleyan.edu/wespress

      © 2015 Richard J. Wiseman

      All rights reserved

      Manufactured in the United States of America

      Typeset in Arnhem by Tseng Information Systems, Inc.

      The Driftless Connecticut Series is funded by the

      BEATRICE FOX AUERBACH FOUNDATION FUND

      at the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving.

      Wesleyan University Press is a member of the Green Press Initiative.

      The paper used in this book meets their minimum requirement for recycled paper.

      The manual excerpts in this book are provided for historical reference and are not recommended or endorsed by Connecticut’s Department for Children and Families.

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Wiseman, Richard

      Riverview Hospital for Children and Youth : a culture of promise / Richard J. Wiseman.

      pages cm.—(A driftless Connecticut series book)

      Includes bibliographical references.

      ISBN 978-0-8195-7589-0 (cloth: alk. paper) — ISBN 978-0-8195-7590-6 (ebook)

      1. Riverview Hospital for Children and Youth (Middletown, Conn.) 2. Mentally ill children—Care—Connecticut—Middletown. 3. Child psychotherapy—Residential treatment—Connecticut—Middletown. I. Title.

      RJ504.5.W56 2015

      618.92′89140097466—dc23 2015011319

      5 4 3 2 1

      Cover illustration: Aerial Photograph of Riverview Hospital, circa 1995. Courtesy of Richard Ribisl

       To my wife, Eunice G. Wiseman, our son, Kenneth R. Wiseman, and our daughter, Lauren W. Sullivan, who sat through many family meals while I monopolized the conversation talking about the latest growing pains of the new Children’s Unit

      RiverView—The Years

       Jacqueline Reardon, 1984

      A time for us, for them

      Those countless faces

      The hurt they feel, we feel

      Their tears awash with our own

      The joys of discovery

      They awaken

      To light

      To life

      To self

      And we rejoice with them

      For we, too, are awakened

      To all that is theirs …

      And ours

      CONTENTS

      …

      Foreword by Louis Ando xiii

      Author’s Note and Acknowledgments xvii

      1. On the Way Up the Hill 1

      2. A Place to Start 8

      3. A New Home 22

      4. A New Direction 34

      5. Children Do Not Belong in Psychiatric Hospitals! 45

      6. A New Name 59

      7. The Evolution of a Milieu 64

      8. Children’s School 82

      9. Recreation in the Children’s Unit 92

      10. Adolescence 98

      11. Teamwork 106

      12. Identity 117

      13. Post-Merger 135

      14. A Broader View of Change 186

      15. Addressing the Mood in the Milieu 194

      16. The Next Generation 205

       APPENDIXES

      1. Excerpts from The Behavioral Learning Environment Unit: BLEU—A Handbook and Training Manual Prepared for the Staff at Connecticut Valley Hospital Children’s Unit 211

      2.

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