Psychiatric Services
- Volume 31
- Number 4
- April 1980
Article
Publication date: 01 April 1980
Pages239–245Despite increasing public and legal pressures to minimize the occurrence of tardive dyskinesia, the practicing clinician often feels there are no alternatives to the use of neuroleptic medication in the treatment of psychosis. However, there are many ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.31.4.239Publication date: 01 April 1980
Pages245–250A tentative set of selection criteria for referral to outpatient group psychotherapy is outlined. The criteria do not distinguish between different schools of therapy but are organized around indications for referral to heterogeneous and homogeneous ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.31.4.245Publication date: 01 April 1980
Pages251–254In March 1978 the Texas Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation, in collaboration with the Texas Department of Health, began a large-scale follow-up and evaluation of state hospital patients placed in nursing homes. Phase one, reported here, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.31.4.251Publication date: 01 April 1980
Pages255–258In the second phase of a follow-up of state hospital patients discharged to nursing homes, conducted by the Texas Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation and Department of Health, the functioning of nursing home patients three years after their ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.31.4.255Publication date: 01 April 1980
Pages259–262In the hospital treatment of borderline patients, separation of the roles of therapist and administrative psychiatrist may help resolve some treatment difficulties and promote the patient's personality growth and development. The administrative ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.31.4.259Publication date: 01 April 1980
Pages263–265The difficulties community mental health centers have in recruiting and retaining psychiatrists may be related to the type of clinical work psychiatrists perform in the centers. The authors conducted a study examining how and by whom a sample of 87 ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.31.4.263Publication date: 01 April 1980
Pages266–268One hundred patients admitted consecutively to a state psychiatric hospital were tested to determine their literacy skills in both word recognition and reading comprehension. In addition, the readability of literature intended to inform patients about ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.31.4.266Publication date: 01 April 1980
Pages268–270Although some uses of seclusion rooms in an inpatient unit put negligible stress on the room, designing a seclusion room requires identifying the maximum stresses it will endure and building it to endure them over a long period of time. Factors to take ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.31.4.268Past Issues
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