Psychiatric Services
- Volume 26
- Number 10
- October 1975
Article
Publication date: 01 October 1975
Pages651–658The author has reviewed outcome studies of token economy programs for psychiatric inpatients. Only studies that employed some control procedures in their evaluation were included. Token economies were most effective in modifying inhospital work, personal ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.26.10.651Publication date: 01 October 1975
Pages659–661Individuals who are second in command in organizations have common problems that result from their role, as illustrated in a hypothetical example of the relationship of a first-in-command and second-in-command in establishing a day hospital. The authors ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.26.10.659Publication date: 01 October 1975
Pages663–666A diverse group of drug abusers in New Haven has benefited from a multifaceted treatment program at the Connecticut Mental Health Center's drug dependence unit. The unit is also involved in research, training, and community education: Treatment approaches ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.26.10.663Publication date: 01 October 1975
Pages667–670A center established three years ago to provide local residential services for severely and profoundly retarded children has developed programs that give the residents a high level of interaction with direct-care staff members and with the community. At ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.26.10.667Publication date: 01 October 1975
Pages671–674The Four Corners Community Mental Health Center, located in southeastern Utah, was established in March 1972 to begin the difficult task of bringing compre hensive community mental health services to a vast, sparsely populated multiethnic region whose ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.26.10.671Publication date: 01 October 1975
Pages675–677An outpatient with phobias related to enclosed places, hospitals, doctors, and cancer was treated by systematic desensitization; the facilities of a general hospital were used for part of the process. Steps in treatment included securing a complete ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.26.10.675Publication date: 01 October 1975
Pages677–679The outpatient psychiatric department of a general hospital utilizes an economical four-day-a-week group program for severely disturbed patients who need Intensive therapy but not hospitalization. The main treatment modality is group therapy four days a ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.26.10.677