Psychiatric Services
- Volume 24
- Number 4
- April 1973
Article
Publication date: 01 April 1973
Pages225–230The decentralization of a private, psychoanalytically oriented hospital placed the activities therapy department in an increasingly isolated position; as a result the department developed a major crisis in its relationships with the rest of the hospital, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.24.4.225Publication date: 01 April 1973
Pages231–233Residential treatment programs for drug abusers have increased along with the growth of drug abuse in this country. Most of the programs are based on the Synanon model, although the success claimed for it has yet to be documented. The few seemingly ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.24.4.231Publication date: 01 April 1973
Pages234–235The authors describe the advantages and disadvantages of including drug addicts in a therapeutic community program with patients who have a primary psychiatric diagnosis arni with alcoholics. The three types of patients initially tended to focus on thefr ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.24.4.234Publication date: 01 April 1973
Pages236–240The Tellurian Community at Winnebago State Hospital is a therapeutic community designed to change the life style of drug abusers. It was begun to meet the needs of seriously drug-dependent patients who require a longer-term residential program and are ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.24.4.236Publication date: 01 April 1973
Pages240–241As part of the staff development program at Kentucky's Eastern State Hospital, a five-session seminar was designed to teach group therapy techniques. It features lectures and small-group discussions on four types of groups: goal-oriented, supportive, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.24.4.240Publication date: 01 April 1973
Pages242–246As the mental health professional moves into the community, he must develop new activities, attitudes, and skills so that he can participate usefully in the complicated and overlapping social systems he must deal with. He must develop a role that can be ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.24.4.242Publication date: 01 April 1973
Pages246–247A study of the frequency of visits to a psychiatric crisis clinic showed that most occurred between noon and 4 p.m., and that weekend visits were proportionately low. The findings enabled the pattern of staff coverage to be changed to meet the timing of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.24.4.246Publication date: 01 April 1973
Pages248–251In the course of providing consultation to an inner-city junior high school, each of the authors taught a weekly class in personal and family life for eighth-graders. The teaching experience helped them gain acceptance by the school faculty and develop a ...
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