Psychiatric Services
- Volume 31
- Number 6
- June 1980
Article
Publication date: 01 June 1980
Pages385–396This overview of recent mental health commitment litigation and statutes begins with the 1972 decision by a federal district court in Wisconsin that the state's procedures for commitment were constitutionally defective; the case, Lessard v. Schmidt, was a ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.31.6.385Publication date: 01 June 1980
Pages397–400To serve discharged state hospital patients from its catchment area, a mental health and retardation center established an ambulatory community service that has total responsibility for the community care of those patients. The service is staffed ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.31.6.397Publication date: 01 June 1980
Pages401–403A pilot project for improving aftercare in a rural area places the responsibility of aftercare on the project staff rather than on the hospital staff or referral agency personnel. Three counselors cover 31 counties in the catchment area. They contact ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.31.6.401Publication date: 01 June 1980
Pages403–406Many old people who are trying to cope with crises in their lives at a time when their physical and emotional resources are lowered could benefit from mental health counseling. A special late life counseling service was established for that population in ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.31.6.403Publication date: 01 June 1980
Pages407–412In order to enhance team functioning and to prevent the development of back wards, an institution must have a climate that motivates both staff and patients. The author summarizes the current technology for developing a motivating organizational climate, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.31.6.407Publication date: 01 June 1980
Pages412–414Although a nursing mother who becomes psycbotic and requires hospitalization is traditionally separated from her infant, the authors successfully treated a psychotic mother by hospitalizing both mother and son. Staff members cared for the infant in the ...
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