The author gives a brief history of patients' struggle for rights beginning with suits brought by individual patients who were criminally committed and culminating in a class-action suit on behalf of those who were involuntarily civilly committed. As an ...

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Problems in Implementing the Right to Treatment in Alabama: The Wyatt V. Stickney Case

Stonewall B. Stickney

Publication date: 01 July 1974

Pages453–460

The author was mental health commissioner in Alabama when the best known of the right-to-treatment cases, Wyatt v. Stickney, was filed in 1970. He describes the mental health department's response to the suit and discusses at length the staffing standards ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.25.7.453

Litigating the Right to Treatment Wyatt v. Stickney

Lawrence H. Schwartz

Publication date: 01 July 1974

Pages460–463

The author says that right-to-treatment litigation is a potent new tool for attacking the system by which mentally impaired people are indefinitely confined to institutions against their will. He discusses the objectives of cases such as Wyatt v. Stickney ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.25.7.460

Medical, Moral, and Legal Issues in Mental Health Care: Presentations From the Taykr Manor Hospital Symposium

Karen Huey

Publication date: 01 July 1974

Pages464–469

Psychiatrists, lawyers, clergymen, and psychologists were among the 350 individuals who attended a symposium on the medical, moral, and legal issues in mental health care held April 5-6 at Taylor Manor Hospital in Ellicott City, Maryland. The summaries ...

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The Role of the Psychiatrist in a Neighborhood Health Center

Elliott M. Heiman

Publication date: 01 July 1974

Pages470–472

El Rio Santa Cruz Neighborhood Health Center in Tucson hired a half-time psychiatric coordinator to integrate the center's psychiatric services. He acted as a consultant to the health teams, attended weekly staff meetings to discuss mental health cases ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.25.7.470

A Clergy Training Program in a Menial Health Center

Publication date: 01 July 1974

Pages472–473

A mental health center initiated a six-month pilot program to teach counseling skills and techniques to clergymen. Two groups of eight students each met once a week. The clergymen developed skills in working with the terminally ill and the aged and in ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.25.7.472

BALANCING PATIENTS' RIGHTS WITH THE RIGHTS OF OTHERS

Herbert C. Modlin

Publication date: 01 July 1974

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THE SUBTLE SUBVERSION OF PATIENTS' RIGHTS BY HOSPITAL STAFF MEMBERS

Kenneth Kramer

Publication date: 01 July 1974

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INCLUDING STAFF'S RACE AND SEX IN A PAPER: PERTINENT DATA OR PREJUDICE?

Henry J. Furston

Publication date: 01 July 1974

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THE ORGANIZATION AND DELIVERY OF MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES IN THE GHETTO: The Lincoln Hospital Experience—by Seymour R. Kaplan, M.D., and Melvin Roman, Ph.D.; Praeger, New York City, 1973, 315 pages, $19.50

Lucy D. Ozarin

Publication date: 01 July 1974

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WHERE DO THE ChILDREN PLAY? (15 mmutes, color, 1973). Produced by the National Association for Retarded Citizens, 2709 Avenue E East, Arlington, Texas 7601 1 . Cleared for TV. Available to members of the Hospital & Community Psychiatry Service through the service's film library; others may borrow it from their local Association for Retarded Citizens. Available for purchase from Motion Picture Laboratory of Dallas, 3825 Bryan Street, Dallas, Texas 75204, for $50 (payment should accompany order)

Jack Neher

Publication date: 01 July 1974

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GUIDELINES FOR A MINIMUM STATISTICAL AND ACCOUNTING SYSTEM FOR COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTERS—by E. Myles Cooper, M.P.H., P.A.; National Institute of Mental Health, 1973, 133 pages. Available from the U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C. 20402, for $1.60 (DHEW Publication No. (ADM) 74-14)

Publication date: 01 July 1974

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HUMAN SERVICES TECHNOLOGY—by Ronald F. Holler and George M. DeLong; Mosby, St. Louis, 1973, 291 pages, $9.50

Publication date: 01 July 1974

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NEWS & NOTES

Publication date: 01 July 1974

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NEWS BRIEFS

Publication date: 01 July 1974

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PEOPLE & PLACES

Publication date: 01 July 1974

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PRODUCT INFORMATION

Publication date: 01 July 1974

Pages495–496

The Product Information section is intended to acquaint readers with equipment and services that may be useful in their programs. Descriptions are based on information supplied by the manufacturers, who invite you to use the postage-paid card below to ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.25.7.495