The 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 ...

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Medication Groups for Continuing Care

Publication date: 01 August 1974

Pages517–519

An 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.25.8.517

Developing an Activity Program in a Welfare Hotel

Publication date: 01 August 1974

Pages520–524

In 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, ...

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A Group Treatment Program for Masochistic Patients

Publication date: 01 August 1974

Pages525–528

Three 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 ...

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The "Fatigue Factor" in Drug Addiction: Insufficient Motivation for Treatment

Publication date: 01 August 1974

Pages528–530

Drug 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.25.8.528

Mutually Therapeutic Interaction Between Mental Patients and Delinquents

J. Robert Russo

Publication date: 01 August 1974

Pages531–533

Juvenile 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.25.8.531

Some Observations About Psychiatric Services in the U.S.S.R

Robert S. Daniels

Publication date: 01 August 1974

Pages533–535

The 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 ...

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CRISIS IN CONSULTATION: THE NEED TO DEVELOP ACCOUNTABILITY

Robert A. Kovan

Publication date: 01 August 1974

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SOME QUESTIONS ABOUT PROFESSIONAL TRAINING IN COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH

Publication date: 01 August 1974

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THE ADMINISTRATION OF MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES—edited by Saul Feldman, D.P.A.; Thomas, Springfield, Illinois, 1973, 395pages,$18.95

Thomas Dolgoff

Publication date: 01 August 1974

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PREVENTIVE EDUCATIONAL INTERVENTION FOR MENTAL HEALTH—by S. Richard Sauber, Ph.D.; Ballinger, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1973, 182 pages,$10

Paul R. Ahr

Publication date: 01 August 1974

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AND THE WALLS CAME TUMBLIN' DOWN AND THE WALLS CAME TUMBLIN' DOWN (25 minutes, color, 1973). Produced by St. Elizabeths Hospital, Washington, D.C. 20032. The film can be borrowed free, through interlibrary loan, from the hospital's health sciences library

Jack Neher

Publication date: 01 August 1974

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IT HAPPENS TO US (30 minutes, color, 1972). Produced by Amalie R. Rothschild. Available from New Day Films, 267 West 25th Street, New York, New York 10001

Pam Wilson

Publication date: 01 August 1974

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MENTAL STATUS EXAMINATION (9 minutes, color, animated, 1974). Produced by and available from the Biomedical Communications Division, University of Nebraska Medical Center, 42nd and Dewey, Omaha, Nebraska 68105. Purchase, $100; rental, $4 for three days, $6 for five days. Also availablein super-8mm

Jack Neher

Publication date: 01 August 1974

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WE DON'T WANT TO LOSE YOU (18 minutes, color, 1974). Produced and distributed by the Ounce of Prevention, 15900 West Ten Mile Road, Southfield, Michigan 48075. Purchase, $288; no rentals

Jack Neher

Publication date: 01 August 1974

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MODEL CRITERIA SETS—American Psychiatric Association; 1974, 16 pages. Available from APA's Publications Sales Division, 1700 18th Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20009, for $2.50. The criteria have been sent as a supplementary mailing to members of the Hospital & Community Psychiatry Service

Publication date: 01 August 1974

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I HAPPEN TO BE OLDER—audiovisual materials for teaching reality-orientation techniques. Available from Intercraft Associates, Box 613, Arlington Heights, Illinois 60006. Basic package, $24.50; write to Intercraft for other prices

Publication date: 01 August 1974

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HANDBOOK: FOUNDATION SUPPORT FOR MENTAL HEALTH AND RELATED SERVICES—edited by Stanley Silber; National Institute of Mental Health, 1974, 89 pages. Available from the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C. 20402, for $1 (stock number 1724-00346)

Publication date: 01 August 1974

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NEWS & NOTES

Publication date: 01 August 1974

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NEWS BRIEFS

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PEOPLE & PLACES

Publication date: 01 August 1974

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PRODUCT INFORMATION

Publication date: 01 August 1974

Pages561–562

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.25.8.561