Psychiatric Services
- Volume 30
- Number 6
- June 1979
Article
Publication date: 01 June 1979
Pages387–393At the present time, deinstitutionalized services for the chronically mentally ill are less than satisfactory. If planning for the future is to reverse the trend of incomplete service delivery for this population, it must start with the recognition and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.30.6.387Publication date: 01 June 1979
Pages393–395In mid-1977 the Kern County (Calif.) Department of Mental Health Services undertook a survey of residents and operators of group and family care homes in the county to obtain their views on how services in the homes might be improved and to assess the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.30.6.393Publication date: 01 June 1979
Pages396–398The seeds of staff burnout are planted when mental health professionals who work with long-term patients do not recognize that such patients vary greatly in their potential for rehabilitation. This situation leads to unrealistic expectations and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.30.6.396Publication date: 01 June 1979
Pages399–401A review of the histories of six patients who failed to adapt to community living after hospital discharge identified six factors that are predictive of serious maladjustment in the community. They are the absence of a family or social network, repeated ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.30.6.399Publication date: 01 June 1979
Pages402–404Staff at a VA-sponsored drug treatment center followed up dropouts one year after they left the program; they were able to locate 80 per cent of those clients. The staff found several contacts useful in locating the difficult-to-find population, including ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.30.6.402Publication date: 01 June 1979
Pages404–406By integrating selected former patients into its regular volunteer program, a South Australian state hospital reduced the hospital stays and the readmissions of a large number of the participants who had previously been seen as failures of the community ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.30.6.404Publication date: 01 June 1979
Pages407–411The inexperienced emergency room clinician can find it difficult and frustrating to make decisions about patients who have threatened or attempted suicide. A review of the literature suggests two approaches to the evaluation of suicide-attempters: ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.30.6.407Publication date: 01 June 1979
Pages411–413The program evaluation and research unit of a community mental health center developed and field-tested a survey form to measure how employees spend their time. The form is divided into direct patient care activities, which include interviewing and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.30.6.411Past Issues
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