Psychiatric Services
- Volume 24
- Number 8
- August 1973
Article
Publication date: 01 August 1973
Pages533–539This paper demonstrates the feasibility of evaluating services without special research funds. The author examined mental health services in a semirural catchment area in Canada to assess how well they were reaching those in need, were helping those they ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.24.8.533Publication date: 01 August 1973
Pages539–542The geographic unit system, with its concept of equal treatment for all mental patients, has been widely adopted by psychiatric hospitals. By bringing acute and chronic patients together and exposing the latter to a large number of high-quality staff ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.24.8.539Publication date: 01 August 1973
Pages543–546This article describes a pilot mental health program that provides psychotherapeutic services to community college students from minority and low-income families and trains minority mental health professionals. The authors detail development of the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.24.8.543Publication date: 01 August 1973
Pages547–551Data were gathered on 787 male alcoholics (669 whites and 118 blacks) to determine if there were racial differences in the amount of services they received at the Georgian Clinic. No pattern of discrimination against black patients was found as measured ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.24.8.547Publication date: 01 August 1973
Pages551–552As part of a course on black-white racial conflict at the University of North Florida, the author required each student to spend one week in the home of a family of the other race. He reports the students' reactions when they learned of the requirement ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.24.8.551Publication date: 01 August 1973
Pages553–556Through an ad hoc committee, an interim board, and then a permanent advisory board, citizens took an active part in developing a city-county community mental health center in a predominantly middle-class area of San Francisco. With staff cooperation, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.24.8.553Publication date: 01 August 1973
Pages556–557In prescribing psychotropic medications for outpatients, physicians frequently follow the pattern used for inpatients, which requires taking medication three or more times a day. Such a schedule is not only inconvenient, but the cost of medication is ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.24.8.556Past Issues
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