Psychiatric Services
- Volume 25
- Number 3
- March 1974
Article
Publication date: 01 March 1974
Pages147–152The authors describe the conditions that existed on three wards for chronic and terminally ill medical patients. Most of the patients were old, few were ambulatory, and many showed cognitive deterioration. There was little interaction among them, or with ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.25.3.147Publication date: 01 March 1974
Pages153–156Editor's Note: The following article differs from most of the papers we publish, which are program descriptions or research studies. It describes the work of one hospital staff member with one patient—a music therapist and a man who had been hospitalized ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.25.3.153Publication date: 01 March 1974
Pages156–159How a cry for help, such as a request for admission to a hospital, is answered depends as much on the hospital's political environment as on the patient's presenting problem. The political environment here refers to the hospital complex within which ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.25.3.156Publication date: 01 March 1974
Pages160–161The authors describe some of the conditions that cause confusion in elderly patients and suggest steps that can be taken to minimize or eliminate the confusion. They include simple devices to help the patient identify his room and to remain oriented to ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.25.3.160Publication date: 01 March 1974
Pages161–164A community mental health center in Laurel, Maryland, operates a program through which clients can compensate the center by contributing their own services to the center or the community. Clients have provided secretarial, babysitting, and tutoring ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.25.3.161Publication date: 01 March 1974
Pages164–165A Veterans Administration hospital established a 30-bed intermediate rehabilitation unit for patients from other treatment wards who have improved but are not ready for full discharge. The unit offers an intermediate phase of treatment to assist the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.25.3.164Publication date: 01 March 1974
Pages166–169When the Massachusetts Mental Health Center took responsibility for a geographic catchment area and began admitting a larger and more diversified group of patients, staff members had to re-examine their reliance on the psychoanalytically oriented ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.25.3.166Publication date: 01 March 1974
Pages170–172A hospital-based community mental health center in Minneapolis developed a consultation and training program for nursing home staff members in order to improve the care and treatment of aged residents. A social-worker-and-nurse team provided consultations ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.25.3.170Past Issues
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