Psychiatric Services
- Volume 30
- Number 8
- August 1979
Article
Publication date: 01 August 1979
Pages527–531The fertility rates of 223 female schizophrenic outpatients and 479 female nonschizophrenic outpatients were compared to a probability sample of 300 women residing in the same geographic area, metropolitan Atlanta, and from the same social strata as the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.30.8.527Publication date: 01 August 1979
Pages532–535A community mental health-mental retardation center developed a computerized problem-oriented record system specifically for use in a full-service community mental health center. It is based on an integrated set of clinical forms that covers all levels of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.30.8.532Publication date: 01 August 1979
Pages536–540In 1974 members of the Ohio Psychiatric Association were surveyed to determine the extent to which psychiatrists performed physical examinations and their attitudes toward conducting such examinations. Responses from 222 psychiatrists showed that most ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.30.8.536Publication date: 01 August 1979
Pages540–543A study of 306 adult psychiatric outpatients visiting a CMHC during one month revealed that 55 per cent of those patients received a psychotropic medication and 45 per cent of the medication recipients used a minor tranquilizer as all or part of their ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.30.8.540Publication date: 01 August 1979
Pages544–547During a one-year period an inpatient psychiatric ward specializing in the evaluation of neuropsychiatric disorders admitted 306 patients for neurodiagnostic services and 119 general psychiatric patients for brief treatment. About half the neurodiagnostic ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.30.8.544Publication date: 01 August 1979
Pages547–551Beginning with the premise that acute inpatient treatment of severely disturbed latency-age children offers enormous advantages over other types of interventions, the author describes a model for such treatment. The model consists of three phases: initial,...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.30.8.547Publication date: 01 August 1979
Pages551–554COPE, a program designed to help chronic psychiatric patients make the transition from institutionalization to independent living in the community, emphasizes both in-hospital training and systematic aftercare as two points on a continuum of treatment. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.30.8.551Publication date: 01 August 1979
Pages555–557A committee of staff and patients conducted an informal evaluation of a therapeutic community on a 16-bed psychiatric unit. The committee reviewed the history, original intent, current purpose, and effectiveness of meetings held on the unit; when problems ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.30.8.555Past Issues
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