Psychiatric Services
- Volume 29
- Number 11
- November 1978
Article
Publication date: 01 November 1978
Pages715–723Two-year outcome data from a study comparing two kinds of treatment given similar groups of young, newly diagnosed, unmarried schizophrenic patients deemed in need of hospitalization are reported. The experimental program, Soteria, is a nonmedical, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.29.11.715Publication date: 01 November 1978
Pages723–727The authors surveyed psychiatric residency programs to see what educational resources were available to residents assigned to provide emergency services during evening and nighttime hours. Almost half the sample of 89 programs assigned first-year ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.29.11.723Publication date: 01 November 1978
Pages728–730Patients identified as psychiatric cases on the emergency ward of a 1036-bed teaching hospital are handled in one of three ways: released with outpatient referral, admitted to a psychiatric inpatient facility, or hospitalized in a general medical holding ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.29.11.728Publication date: 01 November 1978
Pages731–734An informal study of visits to an inpatient psychiatric unit by former patients indicated that such visiting was a common occurrence, more prevalent than staff realized. Most ex-patient visitors were chronically impaired individuals who were making a ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.29.11.731Publication date: 01 November 1978
Pages735–738Disturbed elderly patients too often receive a general and rather automatic diagnosis of senility when a differential diagnosis, made by a multidisciplinary team, could identify their problems more specifically. The Gerontological Treatment Center of the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.29.11.735Publication date: 01 November 1978
Pages738–741After several weeks of orientation with staff, the author, a registered dance therapist, established a movement therapy group for long-term geriatric patients in a convalescent home. The purpose was to promote socialization and expression of feelings, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.29.11.738Publication date: 01 November 1978
Pages742–745A series of forms has been developed by staff at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Seattle in response to a Washington state law requiring that patients give informed consent to treatment. The forms, which describe the nature of the treatment and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.29.11.742Past Issues
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