Psychiatric Services
- Volume 28
- Number 11
- November 1977
Article
Publication date: 01 November 1977
Pages817–826The actions of federal district courts and state legislatures in recent years have resulted in the growing application of procedures of the criminal justice system to the civil commitment process. Increasingly patients can be confined only if they are ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.28.11.817Publication date: 01 November 1977
Pages827–833In 1976 the Connecticut Valley Hospital, the Yale University School of Law, and the department of psychiatry of the Yale School of Medicine undertook a project in which all involuntary patients at the hospital, a total of 107, were reviewed by three ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.28.11.827Publication date: 01 November 1977
Pages834–837The authors describe a study of 224 Involuntary patients admitted to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle in 1974, the first year of the implementation of Washington State's Involuntary Treatment Act. The patients, 115 men and 109 women, had a total of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.28.11.834Publication date: 01 November 1977
Pages837–840In 1974, actIng on precedents set in other cases, a federal district court in Ohio ordered the re-evaluation of all patients committed to Lima State Hospital to determine the need for their continuing to be held in a maximum-security facility. The court ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.28.11.837Publication date: 01 November 1977
Pages843–845Since 1969 the Walk-In counseling Center in Minneapolis has offered free, no-red-tape counseling to individuals and families alienated from traditional services. All counseling is provided by teams of mental health professionals who volunteer their ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.28.11.843Publication date: 01 November 1977
Pages846–848The social work and mental health unit of a comprehensive neighborhood health center delivers mental health services in coordination with general health services to ambulatory patients in a predominantly low-income black community. The unit works with ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.28.11.846Publication date: 01 November 1977
Pages849–851The parent-therapist program was developed as an alternative to residential treatment centers for severely emotionally disturbed children. Five healthy nuclear families function in a group as an extended family. Each family receives a salary and is ...
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