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Psychiatric Services

  • Volume 25
  • Number 10
  • October 1974

Article

Publication date: 01 October 1974

Pages655–659

The 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.25.10.655

Publication date: 01 October 1974

Pages661–664

Sixth-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.25.10.661

Publication date: 01 October 1974

Pages665–668

South 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.25.10.665

Publication date: 01 October 1974

Pages669–672

Believing 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.25.10.669

Publication date: 01 October 1974

Pages673–675

The 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.25.10.673

Publication date: 01 October 1974

Pages675–677

A 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

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