Psychiatric Services
- Volume 29
- Number 9
- September 1978
Article
Publication date: 01 September 1978
Pages573–578Many serious problems in deinstitutionalization result from conceptual oversights or confusion. Understanding deinstitutionalization as a process and a philosophy, as well as a fact, permits planning that will accommodate the variety of patient ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.29.9.573Publication date: 01 September 1978
Pages578–583In a study to refine the methodology for evaluatitig the impact of community mental health centers on state hospital admissions, data were gathered on hospital patients' demographic and clinical characteristics as well as on total admission rates. The ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.29.9.578Publication date: 01 September 1978
Pages584–587Focusing on a sample of 421 patients who made from one to 65 visits to an aftercare clinic, the authors replicated and extended an investigation of the effectiveness of psychiatric aftercare for patients discharged from hospital settings. A total of 167 ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.29.9.584Publication date: 01 September 1978
Pages587–589The authors report on a study of 1999 residents of 26 private proprietary homes for adults in the metropolitan New York City area; 76 per cent of the residents were former psychiatric inpatients. The former patients were compared with the other residents ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.29.9.587Publication date: 01 September 1978
Pages590–593The authors describe an apartment-living project for chronic mental patients released from the Hillside Division of the Long Island Jewish-Hillside Medical Center. The apartments, which are rented by the hospital and sublet to the patients, are located in ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.29.9.590Publication date: 01 September 1978
Pages593–595The authors report on a project in Philadelphia in which boarding homes were successfully used to house former state hospital patients in a warm and therapeutic environment. The program was established jointly by the Jefferson Community Mental Health ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.29.9.593