Psychiatric Services
- Volume 24
- Number 1
- January 1973
Article
Publication date: 01 January 1973
Pages23–26This study obtained information about inpatient treatment modalities used at ten state facilities in Missouri; they consisted of five state hospitals, three mental health centers, and two schools for the retarded. For a random sample of inpatients drawn ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.24.1.23Publication date: 01 January 1973
Pages27–29Texas has developed a management-oriented automated system to monitor clinical records and patient movement in its mental hospitals and schools for the retarded. It is designed to provide administrators and clinicians with concise, current information to ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.24.1.27Publication date: 01 January 1973
Pages30–32The staff on the maximum-security unit at Milwaukee Psychiatric Hospital have successfully initiated behavior modification programs for selected teen-age patients in a setting that is geared to individual psychotherapy. Nurses and aides, who previously ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.24.1.30Publication date: 01 January 1973
Pages33–36An integrated treatment plan combining therapeutic activities conducted by a child's family, a special school, and the hospital is used for some severely disturbed children at a New York children's center. After short-term hospitalization, the child is ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.24.1.33Publication date: 01 January 1973
Pages36–37After his first personal experience with a hospital fire, the author found that he and other staff members were not prepared to deal with various kinds of fire emergencies. He identified potentially hazardous situations and undertook a campaign to educate ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.24.1.36Publication date: 01 January 1973
Pages38–40From its inception in 1963, the mental health service at Lincoln Hospital in the Bronx was hailed as an innovative and creative program. Then, in 1969, issues of community participation forced changes in the program's administration, as local groups ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.24.1.38Publication date: 01 January 1973
Pages40–42A special program for the deaf was initiated in late 1963 when the author began conducting group psychotherapy sessions for a few chronically hospitalized deaf patients. Since then the program has been enlarged to include such activities as psychodrama ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.24.1.40