Psychiatric Services
- Volume 27
- Number 3
- March 1976
Article
Publication date: 01 March 1976
Pages165–170As part of a project to develop a model procedure for returning residents of institutions to the community, the Commonwealth of Virginia contracted with a consulting firm to develop a methodology for conducting a cost-benefit analysis of institutional ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.27.3.165Publication date: 01 March 1976
Pages170–173The authors analyzed the costs and benefits of community care for a middle-aged chronic woman patient who was receiving care from a neighborhood health center after a total of eight years of hospitalization. Cost comparisons over a three-year period were ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.27.3.170Publication date: 01 March 1976
Pages174–179An Illinois mental health center operates a day treatment program for young children who have severe emotional disturbances, often accompanied by profound functional retardation or neurological impairment or both. The primary therapists are child-...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.27.3.174Publication date: 01 March 1976
Pages179–182Observations of 392 women admitted to a psychiatric hospital indicated that 24 were well suited to treatment in a day center and that 208 could feasibly be treated there. However, only 59, or 28 per cent of those for whom day care was feasible, were able ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.27.3.179Publication date: 01 March 1976
Pages183–185The author studied 125 families to determine the effect of the current movement toward returning mental patients to their homes. From interviews with and attitudinal tests of those families, he reports that they will generally care for the former patient ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.27.3.183Publication date: 01 March 1976
Pages193–194Editor's note: Frequently we have wondered what happens to innovative treatment programs for mental patients. Do they continue to grow and flourish, or eventually fade from the scene? To shed some light on that question, H & CP plans to publish occasional ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.27.3.193Publication date: 01 March 1976
Pages195–197For the past four years Southwest Denver Community Mental Health Services, Inc., has had a system of alternative families who take one or two psychiatric patients who need intensive treatment Into their homes; the clients' average stay is ten days. Thus ...
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