Psychiatric Services
- Volume 30
- Number 7
- July 1979
Article
Publication date: 01 July 1979
Pages453–460The physical environment of a treatment program affects patient outcome, but how and to what degree is not known. However, decisions about the design of the environment must be made, and they must be made in the face of cost and building-code constraints ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.30.7.453Publication date: 01 July 1979
Pages461–464A survey of 46 randomly selected schizophrenic residents of six board-and-care homes in the Los Angeles area found that the schizophrenic who adjusts to the setting experiences a schizoid-compliant pattern of outcome on antipsychotic drugs that is ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.30.7.461Publication date: 01 July 1979
Pages465–467A psychiatric patient's long-term use of antipsychotic medication often results in the irreversible movement disorder, tardive dyskinesia. The author uses a composite case history as a basis for discussing the symptoms, diagnosis, epidemiology, and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.30.7.465Publication date: 01 July 1979
Pages467–469To determine the degree to which Nebraska's three state mental hospitals complied with recognized guidelines for prescription of psychotropic medications, a study was made of 1326 drug orders issued over a five-year period. The prescribing practices in ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.30.7.467Publication date: 01 July 1979
Pages470–474Because of the widely varying symptomatology seen in the neuroses, questions have been raised about whether they constitute a realistically defined category of illness. The authors followed 4074 Navy enlisted men diagnosed as neurotic between 1966 and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.30.7.470Publication date: 01 July 1979
Pages474–476Screening chest x-rays are routinely obtained for psychiatric as well as other patients. The authors present data that suggest that this practice no longer has a sound medical basis and should be eliminated or modified. It is unlikely that routine ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.30.7.474Publication date: 01 July 1979
Pages477–480Human services workers at the Veterans Administration Hospital, Brentwood, are involved with patients from the time they are admitted to the hospital until they are discharged and adjust to the community. As part of an evaluation of their role, a study ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.30.7.477Publication date: 01 July 1979
Pages480–482At Cleveland Metropolitan General Hospital a small number of staff and a large number of volunteers from Alcoholics Anonymous have collaborated to meet the treatment needs of the community's alcoholics. Recovered alcoholics serve as volunteers staffing a ...
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