Mental health services in the 1960s reflected then-current beliefs in the effectiveness of crisis-oriented services and broad social programming to treat and even prevent serious mental disorders. The result was an unwarranted emphasis on the single-...

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Drug Refusal in Schizophrenia: Causes and Prescribing Hints

Theodore Van Putten

Publication date: 01 February 1978

Pages110–112

Many discharged patients diagnosed as schizophrenic do not continue to take their prescribed antipsychotic medication. Reasons for reluctance to take drugs include the development of extrapyramidal symptoms, most notably akathisia and akinesia; a poor ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.29.2.110

Rediagnosis of Schizophrenia as Bipolar Affective Illness

Publication date: 01 February 1978

Pages112–114

Ten patients in a Veterans Administration hospital who had been diagnosed and treated as schizophrenic were rediagnosed as having bipolar affective illness and were shown to be responsive to lithium. The authors feel that the diagnosis of schizophrenia is ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.29.2.112

The Use of Fluphenazines in a Continuing-Care Program

David Owens

Publication date: 01 February 1978

Pages115–118

The author describes his experience in using long-acting injectable fluphenazines with chronic schizophrenic patients in a continuing-care program in San Diego County. He has found the drug to be economical, long-lasting in therapeutic effect, and less ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.29.2.115

The Use of Psychotropic Drugs in State Hospitals: A Legal or Medical Decision?

Publication date: 01 February 1978

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APA DEVELOPS MODEL DRUG-USE SCREENING CRITERIA

Publication date: 01 February 1978

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Staff Response to Suicide of Hospitalized Psychiatric Patients

Publication date: 01 February 1978

Pages122–127

The authors cite seven case histories of inpatients who committed suicide over a five-year period and analyze staff reaction and the changes in policy and procedures that followed. They conclude that staff feelings of guilt and failure brought about by ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.29.2.122

The Impact of the Health Professions Educational Assistance Act on State Mental Health Systems

Publication date: 01 February 1978

Pages127–131

One effect of the Health Professions Educational Assistance Act of 1976 is to severely limit the number of foreign medical graduates entering the United States. To examine the impact of the law in Michigan, the authors gathered data on the number of ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.29.2.127