Psychiatric Services
- Volume 24
- Number 9
- September 1973
Article
Publication date: 01 September 1973
Pages605–609Sometimes only a fine line separates individuals who are picked up by the police and sent to jail from those who are directed to mental health agencies. Because of the areas of overlap, increasing emphasis is being placed on partnerships between law ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.24.9.605Publication date: 01 September 1973
Pages610–613A district court requested the division of law and psychiatry of the Menninger Foundation to provide a regular forensic service to the adult courts. Operating in the courthouse, the service became attached to the adult probation department and known as ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.24.9.610Publication date: 01 September 1973
Pages613–615The expert witness is in the advantageous position of being a friend of the court. The psychiatrist in that role has relevant information that outsiders cannot get from the patient. To make his testimony most effective the witness must be aware of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.24.9.613Publication date: 01 September 1973
Pages616–618In 1971 the Federal Correctional Institution in Tallahassee, Florida, began programs to involve family members in rehabilitating young offenders, using community resources wherever possible. Graduate social work students were recruited as volunteer ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.24.9.616Publication date: 01 September 1973
Pages618–620In an effort to accomplish penal reform at the community level, a peer-confrontation program was established in a local juvenile hail for temporary detention. The program was initiated on a unit for adolescent girls, and permits them to assume as much ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.24.9.618Publication date: 01 September 1973
Pages621–624For five months the crisis intervention division of the Fort Logan Mental Health Center admitted all emergency patients who needed inpatient care to a small crisis hostel in the community. The hostel had no formal residential staffing, and neighbors ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.24.9.621Publication date: 01 September 1973
Pages624–626To serve clients more effectively, a child guidance center recruited teen-age volunteers to act as companions to severely disturbed children in homes that at times had equally disturbed parents and siblings. The authors describe recruitment and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.24.9.624Publication date: 01 September 1973
Pages627–628A county outpatient clinic surveyed patients or parents of patients seen during a three-year period to determine whether they were satisfied with the services received. Through a mail questionnaire., the 240 respondents indicated a fairly high degree of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.24.9.627Publication date: 01 September 1973
Pages629–630Remotivation has evolved from a single, highly structured technique for working with severely regressed mental patients into a family of techniques that meet a wide variety of therapeutic needs. The authors describe the various types of remotivation ...
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