Homosexual acting out by young patients on a mental hospital ward prompted the staff to plan a sex education program that would provide basic information on human sexuality and foster more open communication about sexual concerns. However, anxiety over ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.24.3.147

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Sex Education and Mental Health Work With a Female Teen-Age Gang

Publication date: 01 March 1973

Pages151–155

For six months the co-author, a college student, met weekly with a group of 11 girls aged 12 to 14 who hung out at a teen-age center where she had worked in a summer job. All the girls were considered delinquent, were sexually promiscuous, used illegal ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.24.3.151

A Genetics Counseling Clinic in a Mental Health Setting

Publication date: 01 March 1973

Pages156–158

A genetics counseling clinic was established at the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute in July 1971, staffed jointly by medical geneticists and mental health professionals. The authors discuss the emotional implications of genetic disorders for families, and ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.24.3.156

The Development of an Evaluation Program for Children With Learning Problems

Publication date: 01 March 1973

Pages158–162

After various changes in its format, the authors' program for evaluating children with learning problems has been expanded to offer parents instruction in using behavior modification and other techniques for managing their child. A feature of the program ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.24.3.158

Clinical Utility of Haloperidol in 51 State Hospital Admissions

Robert B. Leonard

Publication date: 01 March 1973

Pages162–164

The author conducted an open clinical investigation of the therapeutic effectiveness and safety of haloperidol used alone or concomitantly with electrocoma therapy. A total of 51 men with affective psychoses were studied. Marked or moderate response to ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.24.3.162

Expanding the Pharmacist's Role in a Psychiatric Hospital

Publication date: 01 March 1973

Pages164–166

The pharmacy department at the Fort Logan Mental Health Center is conducting a program to determine how clinical pharmacy services can be used more directly by one of the treatment teams. A pharmacist reviews patients' drug regimes each week with the team ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.24.3.164

Integrating Community Psychiatry and Psychodynamic Theory in a Residency Training Program

Publication date: 01 March 1973

Pages167–169

Although psychodynamic theory and community psychiatry have frequently been considered antithetical concepts, the authors consider them to be mutually interdependent. They believe both should be included in residency training programs to properly prepare ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.24.3.167

School Consultation Experience in a Residency Program

Publication date: 01 March 1973

Pages170–171

The staff at Warren (Pa.) State Hospital believe that psychiatric residents should be exposed to consultation early in their training. They offer a wide range of consultative assignments to thefr first-year residents, as well as to those in the second and ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.24.3.170