Psychiatric Services
- Volume 31
- Number 1
- January 1980
Article
Publication date: 01 January 1980
Pages19–24Clinicians working with elderly patients must assist them in rediscovering strengths, rekindle their interests in activities and in other people, treat and perhaps cure their disabilities, and help them discover that life is worth living. The author ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.31.1.19Publication date: 01 January 1980
Pages33–37In a study to determine the therapeutic value of ward policies of restriction and coercion, as in a step system of privileges, investigators compared the adjustments of patients in three ward settings: one with a formal step system, one in which the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.31.1.33Publication date: 01 January 1980
Pages38–40The use of multidisciplinary teams in the care of psychiatric patients can be countertherapeutic unless attention is paid to the dynamics of team functioning. The authors present a case study of team malfunctioning on an inpatient unit in a state hospital ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.31.1.38Publication date: 01 January 1980
Pages41–45A one-day caseload survey was conducted in Los Angeles County's public inpatient facilities in order to estimate needs for alternatives to hospitalization. According to the primaty therapists of each client in the caseload, 43 per cent of the inpatients ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.31.1.41Publication date: 01 January 1980
Pages45–48Patients in private practice settings frequently need services such as day hospitalization or vocational rehabilitation, which cannot be provided in a private office. Such services have been demonstrated to be effective and should be available to all ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.31.1.45Publication date: 01 January 1980
Pages49–51In looking at demographic, social, psychiatric, and medical characteristics of 125 mentally disturbed children admitted to a state mental hospital in southern California in 1971 and in 1976, the authors found evidence of family instability and disposition ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.31.1.49Publication date: 01 January 1980
Pages52–56The National Association of Private Psychiatric Hospitals, in cooperation with 19 other national health-related associations, held a conference last June in Washington, D.C., on the issues involved in patient re-entry into the community. Representatives ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.31.1.52Past Issues
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