Psychiatric Services
- Volume 25
- Number 9
- September 1974
Article
Publication date: 01 September 1974
Pages587–590Because of the lack of adequate local facilities for young people with schizophrenia-related illnesses, a psychiatrist in private practice established an inpatient program in a remodeled house next to his office. The main treatment method is behavior ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.25.9.587Publication date: 01 September 1974
Pages591–595The authors describe how a mental health center's staff and members of its community advisory boards developed a grant application for children's psychiatric services. The process involved community assessment of needs, the reconciliation of conflicting ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.25.9.591Publication date: 01 September 1974
Pages595–598Parental compliance with postdischarge recommendations was accepted as the criterion for successful intervention in a study conducted on a short-term inpatient ward for retarded children. Parents' attitudes toward the diagnosis and hospitalization and the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.25.9.595Publication date: 01 September 1974
Pages599–601The author, who spent more than 26 years working at the Pestalozzi Children's Village in Trogen, Switzerland, first as a housefather and later as director, describes the history and operation of the village. Established for World War II orphans, the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.25.9.599Publication date: 01 September 1974
Pages602–605The Michael Reese Youth Clinic in Chicago is a community-based psychiatric clinic for delinquent and predelinquent adolescents and their parents. The clinic staff also consult and collaborate with police youth officers, parole officers, probation officers,...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.25.9.602Publication date: 01 September 1974
Pages605–606The author says programs designed to help alcoholics and their families should focus more attention on the needs of children, who frequently suffer serious emotional damage as a result of problems related to a parent's drinking. She reviews some of the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.25.9.605Publication date: 01 September 1974
Pages607–609The authors describe a breakdown in patient government on the psychiatric ward of a Veterans Administration hospital following the resignation of the Vice-President of the United States. When the ward staff recognized the similarity between the ward ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.25.9.607Publication date: 01 September 1974
Pages609–611The University of Pennsylvania Hospital uses a day hospital program to treat obese patients. The program includes dissemination of information about obesity, actual preparation of meals, group behavior therapy sessions, and evening programs encouraging ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.25.9.609Past Issues
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