Psychiatric Services
- Volume 27
- Number 5
- May 1976
Article
Publication date: 01 May 1976
Pages325–330Professional as well as nonprofessional staff who work with the elderly in nursing homes must be reminded repeatedly that most problem behaviors are symptoms of such underlying problems as unresolved conflicts, the loss of normal, appropriate life roles, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.27.5.325Publication date: 01 May 1976
Pages330–334The adult development program is an intensive, short-term program for individuals who want to change their behavior. It is based on an educational model; participants, who are called students, set their own behavior-change goals, and a multidisciplinary ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.27.5.330Publication date: 01 May 1976
Pages334–337The author describes a day treatment program using responsibility therapy, a form of behaviorism based on the principles of Alcoholics Anonymous. Mental illness is conceptualized as an addiction or bad habit to be corrected through definition of the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.27.5.334Publication date: 01 May 1976
Pages338–342The author believes that rapid hospital turnover of psychiatric patients and heavy reliance on psychotropic drugs often interfere with recovery, especially for many psychotic patients who need a retreat where they might be helped to heal themselves. He ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.27.5.338Publication date: 01 May 1976
Pages342–345During its first three years of operation a health center in California developed a program for treating obesity. It was originally called a weight-control class and had an educational orientation. The first series of classes lasted 12 weeks and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.27.5.342Publication date: 01 May 1976
Pages346–348The authors discuss a case in which family therapy administered in a home setting helped to break a cycle of psychiatric hospitalization that had continued for ten years. Their patient had adopted a persistent behavioral pattern involving protective magic ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.27.5.346Past Issues
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