Psychiatric Services
- Volume 23
- Number 11
- November 1972
Article
Publication date: 01 November 1972
Pages325–328The need for an expanded pool of mental health manpower has resulted in a variety of unsuccessful national manpower experiments; the authors examine some of the factors in their failure. The current manpower-development trend appears to show more promise, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.23.11.325Publication date: 01 November 1972
Pages329–334The staff of the mental health program of the Southern Regional Education Board have been involved in a project to help community colleges in the South develop training programs for mental health workers, and to help agencies establish positions for them. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.23.11.329Publication date: 01 November 1972
Pages334–335In recent years the number of two-year college training programs for mental health workers has grown from one to 140, nearly all in community colleges. The author describes the development of the programs and discusses their important features. He ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.23.11.334Publication date: 01 November 1972
Pages336–339North Dakota State Hospital is one of several psychiatric institutions that are experimenting with a problem-oriented approach to record-keeping developed by Lawrence Weed, M.D. Under the system, a patient's problems are listed, and all subsequent data, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.23.11.336Publication date: 01 November 1972
Pages339–345Many aspects of the three European family-care programs described could be more widely applied in the United States. Such programs avoid the need to return the hospitalized patient directly to his own family or community, where many of his problems are ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.23.11.339Publication date: 01 November 1972
Pages346–348The author discusses the relative advantages of establishing suicide prevention and crisis intervention services within an existing agency or as an autonomous unit. Problems in staffing, the use of volunteers, and sources of financial support are also ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.23.11.346Publication date: 01 November 1972
Pages348–349Pending the development of comprehensive mental health programs at neighboring hospitals, a custodial-type inpatient unit for private patients in one of the institutions was developed into an intensive treatment service to admit indigent patients as well. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.23.11.348Publication date: 01 November 1972
Pages350–353A number of issues must be resolved before a mental health agency undertakes a community organization program. They include the priorities for and scope of services, staff training and supervision, te need for skilled management and administrative ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.23.11.350Past Issues
View Issues Archive
Vol. 75 | No. 8
Vol. 75 | No. 7
Vol. 75 | No. 6
