Psychiatric Services
- Volume 31
- Number 10
- October 1980
Article
Publication date: 01 October 1980
Pages671–673While psychiatry has been ambivalent about treating mentally ill offenders, recent mandates for better mental health care for prisoners will require the profession's intervention. The authors, whose study of mental health care needs of inmates in Oklahoma ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.31.10.671Publication date: 01 October 1980
Pages674–677Faced with the recommendation by an outside consultant to construct a large hospital for the criminally insane, the Oklahoma legislature approved a proposal by the state mental health department to study the mental health treatment needs of the prison ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.31.10.674Publication date: 01 October 1980
Pages677–682Members of an interdisciplinary design group, funded to conduct ongoing research in state psychiatric facilities, developed a process by which a seven-year-old facility for geriatric patients could be better adapted to meet users' and program needs. The ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.31.10.677Publication date: 01 October 1980
Pages687–689A treatment and education program for low-income mothers who are emotionally disturbed, PACE (parent and child education) helps women become capable of responsible motherhood and prevents functional disorders and learning disabilities in their children. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.31.10.687Publication date: 01 October 1980
Pages690–692A regional mental health-mental retardation center has reduced admissions to state institutions for the citizens of the Gulf Coast in Texas by 74 per cent over the past ten years. The center serves first those most in need, based on risk of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.31.10.690Publication date: 01 October 1980
Pages693–696For more than two decades the Anchor Mental Health Association has helped former psychiatric inpatients in the Washington, D.C., area regain their place in the community. Beginning as an informal social club at a federal mental hospital, the association ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.31.10.693Publication date: 01 October 1980
Pages696–701For successful treatment of involuntary patients who resist change, therapists from all schools of thought use numerous interventions. A variety of interventions, from the general strategic therapy approach to tactics for dealing with specific behavioral ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.31.10.696Publication date: 01 October 1980
Pages702–704Economically disadvantaged and minority patients often are viewed as being reluctant to use outpatient mental health sevices, especially psychoanalytically oriented ones. They are also believed to have high rates of dropout from treatment. A community ...
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