Psychiatric Services
- Volume 24
- Number 7
- July 1973
Article
Publication date: 01 July 1973
Pages467–472New human-services systems are being developed to deal comprehensively with the nonpsychiatric as well as the psychiatric problems of clients. Given proper statutory and administrative sanctions, mental hospitals capable of establishing links to the local ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.24.7.467Publication date: 01 July 1973
Pages472–473When a small, semirural mental health center became affiliated with a general hospital, it hired a full-time psychiatrist instead of obtaining more part-time psychiatric services. The psychiatrist believes that the resulting system, in which he handles ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.24.7.472Publication date: 01 July 1973
Pages474–475Weekly seminars for staff to discuss their problems in conducting individual psychotherapy have evolved into therapy groups. The groups are held on both interdisciplinary and departmental bases, and use a variety of techniques, including marathon ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.24.7.474Publication date: 01 July 1973
Pages476–479Because of the problems caused by a long waiting list of patients wanting psychiatric services, in January 1970 the department of psychiatry of Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit decided to set aside one day a week for a walk-in clinic. On that day any ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.24.7.476Publication date: 01 July 1973
Pages480–482A community shortage of outpatient mental health services led to the establishment of an evening mental health clinic at Cleveland Metropolitan General Hospital in March 1971. The evening hours have not only made mental health services more accessible to ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.24.7.480Publication date: 01 July 1973
Pages482–484Advances in psychopharmacology and community psychiatry have enabled many long-term patients to be discharged from mental hospitals in spite of major psychopathology. These patients frequently resist initiating and continuing in aftercare, and community ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.24.7.482Publication date: 01 July 1973
Pages485–486The author undertook a survey of chronic mental patients who had been placed as guests in approved boarding homes in Saskatchewan. A questionnaire focused on 16 areas of behavior was completed for 161 guests in 69 homes, and the findings were examined to ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.24.7.485Publication date: 01 July 1973
Pages487–489A cooperative project involving staff of a state hospital and of the mental health clinic in an adjacent county was started on a pilot basis in 1970. Dual appointments and staff sharing between the two facilities have resulted in more comprehensive ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.24.7.487Publication date: 01 July 1973
Pages489–491As part of its emergency services, a community mental health center established a three-bed acute treatment unit to which patients may be admitted for up to 24 hours. The unit, which serves patients from other divisions of the mental health center as well ...
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