Psychiatric Services
- Volume 23
- Number 10
- October 1972
Article
Publication date: 01 October 1972
Pages293–298The pressure to deal with an increasing proportion of chronic patients through short-term care may lead to an elaborately structured milieu that reduces staff's anxiety and gives them a sense of doing something for the patient without having to explore ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.23.10.293Publication date: 01 October 1972
Pages298–301Nine emotionally disturbed adolescent boys in an out-patient program appeared to benefit from a five-day camping and canoe trip with two counselors. The experience required considerable teamwork, and group pressure successfully overcame attempts by some ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.23.10.298Publication date: 01 October 1972
Pages303–306Exclusively an inpatient facility for many years, Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital has refocused its resources to provide a broad spectrum of community services. The hospital is currently developing a comprehensive community mental health center for its ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.23.10.303Publication date: 01 October 1972
Pages307–310Education and training techniques developed in the Child Research Project at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, have helped psychotic children lead more normal lives. Parents are taught how to function as co-therapists for their child in a program at home. The ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.23.10.307Publication date: 01 October 1972
Pages311–314Vocational training and rehabilitation programs at Elwyn Institute have prepared hundreds of mentally handicapped people to live and work in the community. The programs have proved so effective that few former residents have had to be reinstitutionalized. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.23.10.311Publication date: 01 October 1972
Pages315–318Mildly retarded adolescents who are having difficulty getting along in the community are admitted to a two-month inpatient program at the UCLA Neuropsy-chiatric Institute. The staff attempt to correct the adolescent's deviant behaviours through a milieu ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.23.10.315Publication date: 01 October 1972
Pages318–321Since its opening in 1970, the Calgary Drug Information and Crisis Center has operated a variety of direct and indirect services, provided largely by young volunteers. Highest priority has been given to educational seminars for the public and for the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.23.10.318Publication date: 01 October 1972
Pages324-c–324An article in the August issue on the Mental Health Information Service of New York State, "Protective Legal Services for the Mentally Ill" by Kenneth Kramer, J.D., contained an error related to provisions of the state mental hygiene law. The third ...
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