Psychiatric Services
- Volume 29
- Number 7
- July 1978
Article
Publication date: 01 July 1978
Pages437–442In California multiple social forces and financial constraints are leading to the rapid development of local alternatives not only to state hospitals but to general-hospital psychiatric units as well. Two dissimilar patterns of acute-care services are ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.29.7.437Publication date: 01 July 1978
Pages450–453New procedures for conducting competency evaluations were adopted in Connecticut in 1975 as a result of a change In the state law. The accused person is now evaluated in the setting in which he finds himself by virtue of his conflict with the criminal ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.29.7.450Publication date: 01 July 1978
Pages453–456Partly as the result of legislative changes made in 1975 and 1977, Texas has a workable system for dealing with mentally abnormal offenders and assessing the dangerousness of committed offenders. The author summarizes provisions of the law related to ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.29.7.453Publication date: 01 July 1978
Pages457–459The authors interviewed 413 residents of New York State in a study of public perceptions of the criminally insane. They found that the criminally insane are generally considered dangerous, harmful, and violent, and as a class they are feared and rejected ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.29.7.457Publication date: 01 July 1978
Pages460–462Staff of community mental health centers are finding that they must deal with increasing numbers of imminently or potentially violent patients. Some of the author's suggestions for handling such patients include assigning two therapists, one man and one ...
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