Psychiatric Services
- Volume 30
- Number 4
- April 1979
Article
Publication date: 01 April 1979
Pages243–247In a recent six-month period, a state-operated community mental health center was required to gather data for nine major surveys, reviews, and budget requests. Such surveys cover much the same ground, yet without any attempt to standardize formats so that ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.30.4.243Publication date: 01 April 1979
Pages248–252Since its introduction in 1976, the accreditation program for community mental health centers and services has been the focus of considerable comment, both positive and negative. Much of the criticism of the program derives from its theoretical framework, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.30.4.248Publication date: 01 April 1979
Pages256–258Federally funded community mental health centers are required to have governing boards made up of community residents to ensure that services are meeting the community's needs. Sound View-Throgs Neck Community Mental Health Center in Bronx, New York, met ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.30.4.256Publication date: 01 April 1979
Pages259–262Many community mental health centers face serious financial problems as they near the end of the federal funding period. The author describes the developments surrounding an extended financial crisis at an inner-city mental health center that eventually ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.30.4.259Publication date: 01 April 1979
Pages262–265The author emphasizes the need for more precise formulatlon of goals for mental health treatment programs. He describes the Veterans Administration's five-year effort at goal formulation using ideas borrowed from operations research and education. With ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.30.4.262Publication date: 01 April 1979
Pages266–269Because the use of seclusion is controversial, a retrospective study of 50 patients was designed to examine how seclusion is actually being used on a short-term inpatient crisis Intervention unit. It was found that 44 per cent of the patients were ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.30.4.266Publication date: 01 April 1979
Pages269–272The reasons for psychiatric hospitalization are not always taught clearly and formally to psychiatric residents; screening criteria employed in utilization review can be a tool for helping residents gather data and make decisions about the admission or ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.30.4.269Past Issues
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