Psychiatric Services
- Volume 31
- Number 3
- March 1980
Article
Publication date: 01 March 1980
Pages169–174The public policies of the sixties led to new organizational forms, expansion, significantly increased services, and inflation. The policies of the seventies, characterized by cost containment and regulation, have dramatically modified health care ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.31.3.169Publication date: 01 March 1980
Pages175–179The issue of whether sex education programs should be offered in public psychiatric facilities is delicate and complex. It raises a number of questions about the sexual rights of patients and whether the programs help or harm them. The authors discuss ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.31.3.175Publication date: 01 March 1980
Pages179–182Front-line staff in institutions for the mentally ill and mentally retarded are in the best position to help the patients develop to their full potential. However, they are usually poorly paid, and their work seldom receives the respect it deserves. They ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.31.3.179Publication date: 01 March 1980
Pages183–186Psychiatrists and statewide health coordinating councils are products of widely disparate cultures, yet they share the goal of providing the highest quality patient care, and to achieve it they must work together. The author describes the functions of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.31.3.183Publication date: 01 March 1980
Pages187–192The authors have found the structural approach to diagnosis to be a valuable tool in classifying ill-defined mental illnesses. That approach presumes there are discrete levels of mental functioning: neurotic, borderline, and psychotic. Each can be ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.31.3.187Publication date: 01 March 1980
Pages192–195Sixty psychiatric outpatients were independently evaluated before treatment in a mental health center and again after they had either completed five treatment visits or dropped out. Dropouts were older, more likely to be female, more severely ill, and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.31.3.192Publication date: 01 March 1980
Pages196–197The average length of stay for patients on the psychiatric service of a large VA hospital in California was nine days in mid-1977. Such brief hospitalizations often led to insufficient discharge planning and rapid readmissions, within one month of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.31.3.196Publication date: 01 March 1980
Pages198–200The authors describe a program to reduce the use of full-leather restraints on an acute adult inpatient psychiatric ward of a large community mental health center. It included the introduction of a multipurpose pipe-frame bed, which can be used for ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.31.3.198Publication date: 01 March 1980
Pages200–203When a state hospital in New York began returning long-term psycbiatric patients to community living in Westchester County in 1974, the staff of the hospital, local community mental health providers, administrators of a private proprietary home for adults ...
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