revolving door syndrome

revolving door syndrome

1. In psychiatry, a patient's pattern of repeated admissions to psychiatric facilities. Since Penny is back here yet again, we need to devise a different treatment plan for her, to try and stop this revolving door syndrome.
2. The behavior exhibited by adult children who can no longer afford to live on their own and thus return home to live with their parents. My son is living with me once again and, given his disinterest in steady employment, I doubt this revolving door syndrome will ever end!
See also: door, revolve, syndrome
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • a pretty penny
  • pretty penny
  • pretty penny, a
  • spend a penny
  • penny for the guy
  • gain
  • come up with
  • come up with (something)
  • bad penny
  • a bad penny
References in periodicals archive
In doing so, I demonstrate the process of constructing the revolving door syndrome patient as a social problem (Spector and Kitsuse 2001).
"This creates a revolving door syndrome with some patients.
"This is vital because otherwise we are merely looking at a revolving door syndrome of going to prison, coming out, and going back in again."
"It is a revolving door syndrome," Mr Saunders said.
CTO's are specifically meant to address the situation where patients are caught in the "revolving door syndrome:" they are stabilized with medication while in the hospital, and then cease treatment upon release into the community.
"We have returned to the revolving door syndrome of the 1980s with prisoners being released because of overcrowding."
THE man who will lead South Africa into battle against Wales tomorrow has admitted he was put off taking over from Gareth Jenkins because of the revolving door syndrome.
And he was calling for hard to place jobseekers to be supported by welfare advisers for three years after finding work, in order to counter the "revolving door syndrome" which sees many back on the dole after only a short period of employment.
Do members of congress reward their future employers?; evaluating the revolving door syndrome.
I also knew many employees were frustrated by the revolving door syndrome that had resulted from past misguided policies.
Cormack is known not to favour a continuation of the Pittodrie revolving door syndrome which has seen Willie
"The revolving door syndrome for patients will not address the increasing financial pressure Wales faces."
And he will call for hard-to-place jobseekers to be supported by welfare advisers for three years after finding work, in order to counter the "revolving door syndrome" which sees many back on the dole after only a short period.
It is also designed to end the "revolving door syndrome" where crooks go back to crime as soon as they're released.
One policeman said: "There is a revolving door syndrome in the courts.