Psychiatric Services
- Volume 25
- Number 10
- October 1974
Article
Publication date: 01 October 1974
Pages655–659The authors present a theoretical framework of institutional development in which they hypothesize that a new institution has six tasks to perform. Each task is associated with a critical stage of development, or critical issue that must be resolved. In a ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.25.10.655Publication date: 01 October 1974
Pages661–664Sixth-grade students in a social studies class serve as remotivational therapists for chronic geriatric patients in a program begun in September 1972 at the Veterans Administration Hospital in St. Cloud, Minnesota. The students meet with the patients for ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.25.10.661Publication date: 01 October 1974
Pages665–668South Carolina's Columbia Area Mental Health Center, in cooperation with the local office of civil defense, has developed a detailed plan for dealing with psychiatric casualties in the event of disaster. The plan calls for the center to operate as an ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.25.10.665Publication date: 01 October 1974
Pages669–672Believing that hospitalization reinforces the dependent qualities frequently found in mental patients, investigators at Mendota Mental Health Institute developed an intensive treatment program in the community. Patients are randomly assigned to the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.25.10.669Publication date: 01 October 1974
Pages673–675The author examined the relationship between the organizational structure of ten community mental health centers and the characteristics of consultation and education practice in the centers. Forty-five staff members involved in consultation and education ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.25.10.673Publication date: 01 October 1974
Pages675–677A crisis intervention team at a state hospital offered professional services to approximately 27 patients before it was disbanded after six months of operation. The authors describe the evolution of the team, discuss the conflicts that led to its demise, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.25.10.675