Psychiatric Services
- Volume 28
- Number 5
- May 1977
Article
Publication date: 01 May 1977
Pages351–356In 1971 U.S. District Judge Frank M. Johnson, Jr., ruled that patients involuntarily committed to Alabama mental institutions have a constitutional right to treatment. The following year he issued a court order containing 35 minimum constitutional ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.28.5.351Publication date: 01 May 1977
Pages362–364The author, the fifth superintendent of Alabama's Bryce Hospital since the Wyatt v. Stickney order was issued in 1972, discusses the major problems faced by an administrator in complying with the court-set standards. They relate to qualified mental health ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.28.5.362Publication date: 01 May 1977
Pages364–366The author believes that the growth of the community mental health system in Alabama has suffered as a result of the Wyatt decision. The state has a limited number of dollars to invest in mental health, and the Wyatt court order requires that the state ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.28.5.364Publication date: 01 May 1977
Pages366–369The author investigated the posthospital outcome of a random sample of 228 patients released from Bryce Hospital between June 1972 and June 1973. Approximately 72 per cent of the ex-patients participating in the follow-up study had been released from the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.28.5.366Publication date: 01 May 1977
Pages370–371Long before the Wyatt litigation began, staff at Searcy Hospital were aware of and concerned about changes that needed to be made in order to improve the quality of care at the institution; adequate funding was not available to make the changes. However, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.28.5.370Publication date: 01 May 1977
Pages375–379Michigan's approach to protecting patients' rights is based on the statutory guarantee of those rights, through the 1975 mental health code, and on a set of specific administrative procedures. An office of recipient rights was established in the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.28.5.375Publication date: 01 May 1977
Pages379–381Several studies have found a relationship between the distance that must be traveled to receive a mental health service and the rate of utilization of the service. In the study of admission rates to mental health centers and state hospitals reported here, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.28.5.379Past Issues
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