Psychiatric Services
- Volume 26
- Number 9
- September 1975
Article
Publication date: 01 September 1975
Pages577–581Gardner (Mass.) State Hospital began transferring its resources to two community programs two years ago. During the transfer administrative problems increased and became more difficult to resolve, hospital staff and community members became fearful that ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.26.9.577Publication date: 01 September 1975
Pages581–583Two studies were made in the northwestern region of Illinois to determine if the community approach helped restore the social competence and reduce the build-up of chronically ill patients. In the first study there was no indication that community care ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.26.9.581Publication date: 01 September 1975
Pages584–586The development of the Fort Logan Mental Health Center, which opened in Denver in 1961, was strongly influenced by recommendations of the Joint Commission on Mental Illness and Health. It became an innovative, award-winning facility for state-funded, long-...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.26.9.584Publication date: 01 September 1975
Pages587–589Since 1969 treatment of the mentally ill in California has shifted from the use of large state institutions to reliance on community-based programs. The author describes the shift, the legislation precipitating it, and the public controversy surrounding ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.26.9.587Publication date: 01 September 1975
Pages589–592In the early 1970s Orange County, through the Orange County Department of Mental Health, began building a local network of regionalized and centralized services, the goal of which is to provide all needed mental health services locally. Despite budgeting ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.26.9.589Publication date: 01 September 1975
Pages593–596The authors made a survey of all admissions to Topeka (Kans.) State Hospital from a three-county catchment area over an 11-year period during which a private psychiatric clinic in the area assumed the functions of a comprehensive community mental health ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.26.9.593Publication date: 01 September 1975
Pages596–598A community hospital serving part of a state hospital's receiving area opened a psychiatric inpatient unit. The authors studied the impact of the new unit on the number of psychiatric admissions to the state hospital, and also sought to determine if the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.26.9.596Publication date: 01 September 1975
Pages599–601There are glaring, almost universal deficiencies in the organization of community resources for treating and rehabilitating the mentally ill, particularly psychotic patients, the author says. The deficiencies could be partly remedied by reorganizing ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.26.9.599Publication date: 01 September 1975
Pages601–604Several years ago the staff of a traditional psychiatric ward in a Veterans Administration hospital began trying to provide continual care for their former inpatients after they left the hospital. Nursing assistants conducted basic-skills groups and other ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.26.9.601Publication date: 01 September 1975
Pages605–609The author, the first medical director of the American Psychiatric Association and APA president in 1964-65, presents a historical review of the 25 years between 1945 and 1970, a period in which there was a reawakening of interest in the mentally ill and ...
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