Psychiatric Services
- Volume 29
- Number 12
- December 1978
Article
Publication date: 01 December 1978
Pages781–787The current restrictions on resources for mental health care reflect political priorities rather than immutable economic forces, the author contends. He believes that despite the public cynicism about the motives of professionals who plead for additional ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.29.12.781Publication date: 01 December 1978
Pages787–791An inpatient psychiatric service was developed in a community hospital in Appalachia by building on the hospital's existing mental health components, a comprehensive alcoholism program and an inservice training program for general-duty nurses. In its ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.29.12.787Publication date: 01 December 1978
Pages792–794The Appalachian Regional Comprehensive Alcoholism Program in Beckley, West Virginia, was established in 1972 to meet the needs of a four-county catchment area. In designing the program, planners took into account the special cultural and economic ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.29.12.792Publication date: 01 December 1978
Pages795–796The alcohol emergency room at Denver General Hospital provides a model for crisis intervention for alcoholics. The unit is staffed 24 hours a day by nurses. Patients spend an average of 45 minutes in waiting time and triage. About half the patients ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.29.12.795Publication date: 01 December 1978
Pages800–802A chaplain, a psychiatrist, and a social worker developed a program to train clergy in more effective mental health case management, counseling, and referral skills, and to sensitize mental health center professionals to the work of the clergy in mental ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.29.12.800Publication date: 01 December 1978
Pages803–806The authors contend that families of schizophrenics have received too little help from mental health professionals, even though in many cases families are the real primary care agents for long-term patients released from mental hospitals. They discuss ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.29.12.803Publication date: 01 December 1978
Pages806–809A psychiatric center in Brooklyn provided a socialization program in a community residence for adults discharged from state hospitals and made a study of the program's outcome. Residents on two floors of the home, the experimental group, received an ...
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