Psychiatric Services
- Volume 23
- Number 9
- September 1972
Article
Publication date: 01 September 1972
Pages261–268Psychiatric hospitals with unit systems differ in productivity, as measured by an increase in turnover rates and a decrease in long-term residents. A study of 39 VA hospitals revealed that the most productive had special placement programs, smaller ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.23.9.261Publication date: 01 September 1972
Pages268–271An informal study of 12 mental hospitals indicates that the most potent factor in turnover rates is the criteria set by ward teams for release of patients. Staff in hospitals with high turnover tend to take more risks in releasing marginally adaptive ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.23.9.268Publication date: 01 September 1972
Pages272–276Staff members at a community mental health center in Tampa conducted a seminar on busing last fall aimed at exploring the sources of emotional conflicts over the issue and preventing trouble in the community. The 500 community leaders who attended were ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.23.9.272Publication date: 01 September 1972
Pages277–279Acrimonious debate at weekly medical society meetings and a flourishing, opinionated medical press characterized the St. Louis medical community of a century ago. Medical schools were implored to teach about mental disorder because "Insanity is on the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.23.9.277Publication date: 01 September 1972
Pages279–281A four-county area of Iowa is providing comprehensive mental health care by drawing on local resources. The system of related services includes the psychiatric unit of a general hospital, a mental health center that is primarily locally supported, a ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.23.9.279Publication date: 01 September 1972
Pages282–283A newly constructed and almost fully staffed community mental health center was faced with a financial crisis when anticipated federal staffing funds were not available. The program weathered the crisis through the support of its parent organization and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.23.9.282Publication date: 01 September 1972
Pages284–286The outcome for 13 mother-infant pairs admitted to an adult psychiatric ward was studied by interviewing the parents a year or more after discharge. Only three mothers did not consider the baby's admission a primary factor in their recovery; a review of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.23.9.284Publication date: 01 September 1972
Pages287–289For many hospitalized patients, the author says, behavior modification is a promising but controversial technique that is based on questionable assumptions. He examines some of those assumptions, describes the use of the technique at Norwich Hospital, and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.23.9.287Past Issues
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