Psychiatric Services
- Volume 26
- Number 3
- March 1975
Article
Publication date: 01 March 1975
Pages143–145A volunteer program can become a solid, smooth functioning part of a community mental health center or other agency if it is built around the needs of both the agency and the volunteers. The author discusses the need to develop realistic job descriptions, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.26.3.143Publication date: 01 March 1975
Pages146–151The authors conducted a controlled research investigation into the effectiveness of a volunteer program at three Veterans Administration hospitals. In the program, called Project Anchor, volunteers helped mental patients being released from the hospital ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.26.3.146Publication date: 01 March 1975
Pages151–153Two aftercare programs using volunteers as therapists for former in patients have been effective in reducing hospital readmissions. The volunteer therapists ensure that patients take medications, evaluate them for decompensation, help them find housing ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.26.3.151Publication date: 01 March 1975
Pages154–156When staff members of a community mental health center's day treatment program for adults with emotional problems found there was not enough time for planning and meeting program goals, they considered using volunteers to help in the treatment process. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.26.3.154Publication date: 01 March 1975
Pages156–159For two and a half years the authors have taught Transcendental Meditation (TM) to psychiatric patients at the Institute of Living in Hartford, Connecticut. They have also presented programs to hospital staff to acquaint them with the technique and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.26.3.156Publication date: 01 March 1975
Pages160–162Twenty long-term psychiatric patients with criminal charges against them were transferred from the Iowa Security Medical Facility to open hospitaLs and aftercare settings between 1969 and 1971. Staff prepared the patients for transfer and persuaded ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.26.3.160Publication date: 01 March 1975
Pages163–164At the Fort Logan Mental Health Center In Denver, an automated system for evaluating treatment effectiveness is based on a goal-attainment approach. Patients, staff, and patients' relatives or friends specify treatment goals from a standardized list of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.26.3.163Publication date: 01 March 1975
Pages165–166During their struggles to develop a utilization review model for a community mental health center, members of an interdisciplinary committee identified several issues they believe are important in establishing such a model. They include comprehensiveness ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.26.3.165Past Issues
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