Psychiatric Services
- Volume 27
- Number 1
- January 1976
Article
Publication date: 01 January 1976
Pages25–29In recent years many states, with the aim of integrating fragmented human services, have reorganized their human-service programs into comprehensive or umbrella agencies. The agencies vary widely in the number and kind of programs they include. Mental ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.27.1.25Publication date: 01 January 1976
Pages29–32The Orange County Department of Mental Health developed a code of ethics to give its variety of employees a single set of standards for patient care and professional behavior In a community mental health program. The need for the code grew from problems ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.27.1.29Publication date: 01 January 1976
Pages33–35Motivated by concern about the fate of psychiatric hospital patients after discharge to the community, a community mental health center decided to send a psychiatrist into the community to establish liaison with private-care facilities and to determine ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.27.1.33Publication date: 01 January 1976
Pages35–37Foreign medical graduates entering psychiatric residency programs in the United States must cope with cultural, language, educational, and status barriers during their crucial first year of training. The authors point out the shortcomings of American ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.27.1.35Publication date: 01 January 1976
Pages37–39The author believes that many of the chronic patients in psychiatric institutions and mental health facilities could be helped if physicians were more willing to try different combinations and higher dosages of psychotropic drugs than are commonly used. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.27.1.37Publication date: 01 January 1976
Pages40–42Staff on the rehabilitation unit for amputees at the Navy Regional Medical Center in Oakland, California, requested psychiatric consultation after a group of young patients had shown destructive behavior and resistance to the rehabilitation program. After ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.27.1.40Publication date: 01 January 1976
Pages42–44Section XI of the Florida Mental Health Act, or Baker Act, mandates the review of prior hospitalization orders for each resident patient. Those retained become voluntary patients, unless placed on involuntary status under procedures outlined in the act. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.27.1.42Publication date: 01 January 1976
Pages45–52Labor union activities and employee work actions are of considerable interest to mental health administrators these days, as evidenced by the large attendance and some heated exchanges at a session on labor-management relations held on the closing day of ...
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