Psychiatric Services
- Volume 31
- Number 5
- May 1980
Article
Publication date: 01 May 1980
Pages315–318For a variety of reasons, general hospitals are being asked to accept both involuntary admissions and patients who are difficult to manage safely on an unlocked unit. The author considers some of the programmatic, legal, architectural, and economic issues ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.31.5.315Publication date: 01 May 1980
Pages318–324Believing that if general hospitals are pressured into admitting involuntary patients without adequate safeguards, care may deteriorate, the Massachusetts Psychiatric Society drafted a detailed position statement enumerating what resources and services ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.31.5.318Publication date: 01 May 1980
Pages325–327Because of California state laws emphasizing treatment at the local level, and because of a number of financial considerations, many general hospitals in California have developed inpatient psychiatric programs designed to meet the needs of all but the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.31.5.325Publication date: 01 May 1980
Pages328–331Lower salary costs and effective provision of services to specific community groups are counted among the advantages of the use of mental health workers in community programs. In a cost-benefit analysis of the value of health manpower, salaries and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.31.5.328Publication date: 01 May 1980
Pages332–335Clinicians at a geriatric evaluation and treatment clinic include the patient's family in all stages of assessment and intervention so that the family can ultimately assume much of the responsibility for care. The family's strengths and weaknesses and its ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.31.5.332Publication date: 01 May 1980
Pages336–338A study of the demographic and clinical characteristics of 137 patients in a state hospital in Massachusetts on a single day in March 1977, well after the state's massive deinstitutionalization program was in effect, showed that the patients who remained ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.31.5.336Publication date: 01 May 1980
Pages338–341Fewer and fewer psychiatrists seem interested in pursuing a career in community mental health. The author examines some of the possible reasons for the lack of interest, such as role diffusion and the jealousy and hostility of nonpsychiatric mental health ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.31.5.338Past Issues
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