Psychiatric Services
- Volume 32
- Number 12
- December 1981
Article
Publication date: 01 December 1981
Pages830–831This month's guest expert on the use of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 3rd edition, is Dr. William Frosch, professor of psychiatry and vice-chairman of the department of psychiatry at Cornell University Medical College in New ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.32.12.830Publication date: 01 December 1981
Pages839–843An estimated 15 per cent of the American population suffers from some form of emotional disorder. Such widespread prevalence dictates allocation of more funds for development of primary prevention programs. For years investigators have successfully used ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.32.12.839Publication date: 01 December 1981
Pages843–848The renewed interest in primary prevention has been accompanied by changes in conceptualization. Investigators are reassessing their definitions of primary prevention and how it might work; they have placed new emphasis on precipitating factors in mental ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.32.12.843Publication date: 01 December 1981
Pages849–852The knowledge explosion of recent years has generated a language explosion in every field, especially in the behavioral sciences. In addition, existing terms are often used in new, jargonistic, or contradictory ways, and some words have become so ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.32.12.849Publication date: 01 December 1981
Pages852–855Family therapy is commonly practiced at most community health centers in this country. Nevertheless, mental health center policies and procedures are often antithetical to family therapy and may seriously impede its conduct. Structural division of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.32.12.852Publication date: 01 December 1981
Pages856–858The right to refuse medication is a legal right now being extended by federal courts to many voluntary and involuntary mental patients. However, little is known of the insight that chronically ill mental patients bring to the decision of whether or not to ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.32.12.856Publication date: 01 December 1981
Pages858–861Studies of the outcome of psychotherapy are becoming an important part of health policy development, cost control, and program evaluation. The authors describe steps in the design and implementation of an outcome study, including the selection of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.32.12.858Publication date: 01 December 1981
Pages862–865The institutional atmosphere and programming of a nursing home can often engender a downward spiral of increasing dependence and learned helplessness in its elderly residents. Elderly patients with chronic medical complaints combined with psychiatric and ...
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