Psychiatric Services
- Volume 30
- Number 2
- February 1979
Article
Publication date: 01 February 1979
Pages105–110Deinstitutionalization of patients is an inevitable fore-runner of hospital phase-down or closure, but if the two processes are carried out at the same time, they will be counterproductive. An evaluation of the combined deinstitutionalization and phasing ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.30.2.105Publication date: 01 February 1979
Pages110–113The past two decades have witnessed several important trends in mental health care: a decline in the resident census in public mental hospitals, an increase in outpatients treatment and facilities, relative stability in the number of hospitalization ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.30.2.110Publication date: 01 February 1979
Pages114–117With some schizophrenics, response to antipsychotic drugs is best monitored in the hospital. They include dysphoric responders, those whose illness has been only minimally responsive to antipsychotic drugs, and habitual noncompliers with drug regimen. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.30.2.114Publication date: 01 February 1979
Pages117–121In recent years there has been a significant decrease in the length of hospital stays for psychiatric patients. The author examines whether the shorter stays are justified by results of controlled studies and, if so, what is the most appropriate hospital ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.30.2.117Publication date: 01 February 1979
Pages122–125The authors' model for the hospital treatment of severely disordered adolescents and young adults calls for a categorization of the patient's major characteristics that are relevant to treatment along six axes: symptoms and signs, previous course of the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.30.2.122Publication date: 01 February 1979
Pages125–128Several factors press for change in the psychiatric hospital of the 1980s, including knowledge obtained from recent controlled studies of outcome of different approaches and length of hospital stay, changes in the social-political-economic climate, and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.30.2.125Publication date: 01 February 1979
Pages129–132The authors share responsibility for providing psychotherapy for adults and children who are subscribers to the Health Maintenance Plan, Cincinnati. The limited resources in such a setting led them to combine the general-systems-theory proposition that ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.30.2.129Publication date: 01 February 1979
Pages132–134A variety of civil, treatment, and environmental rights of patients in Michigan's state institutions, private facilities, and community mental health services are protected by the state's mental health code. Any complaint of a violation of a right must be ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.30.2.132Past Issues
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