Psychiatric Services
- Volume 26
- Number 4
- April 1975
Article
Publication date: 01 April 1975
Pages207–213As a result of changes in the mental health delivery system over the past 30 years, highly qualified professionals from many disciplines have been attracted to the field. However, their skills are often not used most effectively because the settings where ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.26.4.207Publication date: 01 April 1975
Pages213–218This study reports the methodology developed to obtain more meaningful cost data in a VA psychiatric hospital. The VA cost-accounting system provides specific cost data for two major groups of patients: the psychiatric medically infirm (chronic long-term ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.26.4.213Publication date: 01 April 1975
Pages219–221Role stereotyping can cause conflicts between medical students and nurses on a psychiatric ward when students, expecting traditionally subservient handmaidens, find instead independent, capable nurses with their own views about patient care. The authors ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.26.4.219Publication date: 01 April 1975
Pages222–225In 1969 the author wrote a candid and, by his own later appraisal, paternalistic account of how he worked with individuals and the community at large during one year of psychosocial counseling in the Hartford ghetto. He withheld that article from ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.26.4.222Publication date: 01 April 1975
Pages225–227Psychological problems among ghetto dwellers often result from deplorable living and social conditions that must be remedied before any long-term changes can be effected. In this follow-up of the preceding paper, the author takes a pessimistic view of his ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.26.4.225Publication date: 01 April 1975
Pages227–230In cooperation with a rehabilitation agency, the adult outpatient department of a community mental health center has developed a group treatment program for chronically ill patients in the community. Conducted in the framework of an activity program, the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.26.4.227Publication date: 01 April 1975
Pages230–231The authors report on the differences in attitudes and perceptions that clinical and community organization staff have about the role of community organizers in a mental health center and about the center's priorities. Community organizers defined their ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.26.4.230Past Issues
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