Psychiatric Services
- Volume 30
- Number 3
- March 1979
Article
Publication date: 01 March 1979
Pages169–182Despite the network of community mental health centers, the general hospital has become the focal point for the delivery of mental health care in the U.S. The author presents an overview of the psychiatric unit in the general hospital, including its ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.30.3.169Publication date: 01 March 1979
Pages185–189For psychiatry to be successfully integrated into the general hospital, the psychiatrist must function within the medical model, and his mode of practice must be consistent with general-hospital caretaking. The author discusses the positive effects of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.30.3.185Publication date: 01 March 1979
Pages190–192The number and the roles of psychiatric units in general hospitals have been growing rapidly in recent years, and general-hospital psychiatry presents broad opportunities for service delivery, education, and research. Most or all the basic components of a ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.30.3.190Publication date: 01 March 1979
Pages193–194Major issues facing general hospitals today include the spiraling cost of health care and attempts by both the hospital industry and government to stem it. Although psychiatric care has not contributed substantially to the inflation in health care costs, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.30.3.193Publication date: 01 March 1979
Pages195–199The authors describe their adaptation of focal therapy to the day hospital setting. Its goal is circumscribed characterological change through the interpretive uncovering of only one area of conflict. It has previously been used mainly with patients seen ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.30.3.195Publication date: 01 March 1979
Pages199–202Consecutive new admissions to a large urban psychiatric aftercare clinic over a nine-month period were surveyed on a variety of demographic variables as well as on psychiatric history, symptomatology, and social and domestic role performance. The findings ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.30.3.199Past Issues
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