Psychiatric Services
- Volume 31
- Number 2
- February 1980
Article
Publication date: 01 February 1980
Pages97–103Considerable semantic confusion surrounds the use of the concept "least restrictive environment." Imprecise use of this and other terms in planning services for chronic mental patients has been associated with errors in logic and faulty generalizations. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.31.2.97Publication date: 01 February 1980
Pages103–107Faced with a major operational deficit and the end of its federal staffing grant, a community mental health center established a cost-containment committee and developed a program to engage staff support. The committee, including members of the clinical ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.31.2.103Publication date: 01 February 1980
Pages108–112Many chronic psychotic patients make pathological adaptations to the environments imposed on them as a result of their illnesses, and those adaptations often distort the clinical picture and make it difficult for the psychiatrist to make a satisfying ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.31.2.108Publication date: 01 February 1980
Pages113–116The placements, activity levels, and hospital admissions of 263 of the most severely mentally ill patients in a county continuing care program were studied over an 18-month period. The findings showed a major shift of patients from local locked facilities ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.31.2.113Publication date: 01 February 1980
Pages117–119In 1977 staff members on a 30-bed inpatient ward in a state hospital implemented a program to discontinue the medication of chronic schizophrenic patients who had been hospitalized continuously for five years or more. Six-month follow-up of the 15 ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.31.2.117Publication date: 01 February 1980
Pages119–121Staffing patterns of federally funded community mental health centers were examined in a survey of 512 centers conducted in 1977. A total of 275 usable responses were received. The findings showed that rural centers had significantly fewer trainees in ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.31.2.119Publication date: 01 February 1980
Pages122–126The management and treatment of psychotic exacerbations of manic-depressive illness during the last six months of pregnancy are discussed and guidelines are given. The author notes that such concerns are covered only superficially in most standard ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.31.2.122Past Issues
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