When the treatment team in an inpatient psychiatric unit institutes a new unit schedule that provides for all patients to be involved in activities continuously throughout both the day and early evening, which element of milieu management needs reflection and reconsideration?

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The situation described suggests a milieu in which patients have no time for planned therapeutic encounters with staff; hence, it is a milieu lacking balance. Environmental modification is not a core element of milieu management. Data are insufficient to permit the student to choose either the component of norms or limit setting.

When the Treatment Team in an Inpatient Psychiatric Unit Institutes