Psychiatric Services
- Volume 30
- Number 10
- October 1979
Article
Publication date: 01 October 1979
Pages683–685The impact of Proposition 13 on one community mental health center in California is described. Although the center has had no layoffs as a result of its passage, the measure has had a serious effect on staff morale, which was already at a low point ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.30.10.683Publication date: 01 October 1979
Pages686–689Psychiatric and primary care residents can benefit from taking part of their training together in a primary care setting such as a neighborhood health center or a health maintenance organization. The training in such organized settings can best focus on ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.30.10.686Publication date: 01 October 1979
Pages690–693In early 1979 the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals published a manual consolidating standards for adult psychiatric, child and adolescent, alcoholism, and drug abuse programs. The standards became effective on October 1, 1979. Instead of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.30.10.690Publication date: 01 October 1979
Pages699–701A community-based, nonprofit outpatient clinic in Washington, D.C., has been successful in using the medical model to provide high-quality services to low-income patients. In 13 years it has grown from five staff members and 17 patients to a part-time ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.30.10.699Publication date: 01 October 1979
Pages702–705Child abuse, a problem that has plagued societies for centuries, has been largely ignored by psychiatrists, the author asserts. He traces the relatively recent interest in the problem of other medical specialists such as pediatricians and radiologists and ...
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