Psychiatric Services
- Volume 25
- Number 8
- August 1974
Article
Publication date: 01 August 1974
Pages513–517The author emphasizes the need for a wide variety of community living arrangements for former mental patients, and describes a private residential-care program he founded in New York City in 1966. The program includes the 196-bed Boerum Hill Home for ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.25.8.513Publication date: 01 August 1974
Pages517–519An outpatient clinic in a community setting is using medication groups to monitor and improve the effectiveness of psychotropic drugs administered to chronic patients with strong dependency needs. A third-year psychiatric resident leads the groups, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.25.8.517Publication date: 01 August 1974
Pages520–524In 1972, at the request of the manager of a welfare hotel in Greenwich Village, two occupational therapists from St. Vincent's Hospital began conducting a part-time activity program in the hotel. The tenants consisted of 140 middle-aged and elderly men, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.25.8.520Publication date: 01 August 1974
Pages525–528Three women therapists conducted a group treatment program for 11 extremely dependent masochistic women patients who had previously been treated individually and had not improved. The patients identified behaviors they wanted to change, and the therapists ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.25.8.525Publication date: 01 August 1974
Pages528–530Drug addicts who seek treatment may speak poignantly of the physical and emotional exhaustion resulting from the pressures caused by their addiction. The authors have termed these pressures the "fatigue factor." Although such internal motivation has been ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.25.8.528Publication date: 01 August 1974
Pages531–533Juvenile delinquents from an Illinois correctional facility for boys visit patients in a state mental hospital in a program to improve the delinquents' self-concept by enabling them to help others. For about four months the delinquents go to the hospital ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.25.8.531Publication date: 01 August 1974
Pages533–535The author visited psychiatric dispensaries, hospitals, and research institutes during a trip to the U.S.S.R. in September 1972. He describes the various facilities and other aspects of the Soviet system of psychiatric care, which emphasizes outpatient ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.25.8.533Publication date: 01 August 1974
Pages561–562The 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.25.8.561