Psychiatric Services
- Volume 28
- Number 7
- July 1977
Article
Publication date: 01 July 1977
Pages517–521Organizational disturbances often begin with seemingly plausible complaints, which the author calls mass symptoms, that are presented repeatedly from many sources and that cannot be clarified or resolved. They are essentially pseudo-problems by which ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.28.7.517Publication date: 01 July 1977
Pages521–525A core group of staff hired to open a new community mental health center attempted to employ the concepts of egalitarianism and role-blurring to avoid the rigidity and the strictly hierarchical approach to decision-making that existed in the state ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.28.7.521Publication date: 01 July 1977
Pages527–529Using the model of "person plus stress yields reaction," the authors discuss the differences between crisis intervention and short-term treatment, including psychiatric emergencies. In emergency treatment the central focus is on the reaction, or symptoms, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.28.7.527Publication date: 01 July 1977
Pages530–532The standard method of referral used by workers at the Cleveland Suicide Prevention Center is to call the facility or therapist to make an appointment for the client and then to follow up to see if the client kept the appointment. Three different patient ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.28.7.530Publication date: 01 July 1977
Pages533–536The author describes the use of anger provocation, a technique that encourages patients to express their repressed anger to a therapist who makes himself the target for their anger. He presents five case examples to illustrate the positive effects of the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.28.7.533Publication date: 01 July 1977
Pages537–538The authors discuss the value of short-term psychiatric treatment in the nonpsychiatric wards of a general hospital for patients who attempt suicide. During 1974 a total of 124 such patients were seen in the emergency room of Meir General Hospital in Kfar ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.28.7.537Publication date: 01 July 1977
Pages539–541The author describes a short-term group therapy program that he believes is more effective than the traditional one-to-one approach for people in crisis. The group focuses on the problems of one member at a time and helps him examine his role, identity, ...
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