Psychiatric Services
- Volume 32
- Number 2
- February 1981
Article
Publication date: 01 February 1981
Pages95–99The term "therapeutic community" has been used to describe a vast array of milieu therapy techniques; thus the term has come to mean different things to different people. The author defines the therapeutic community through an examination of its ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.32.2.95Publication date: 01 February 1981
Pages99–104Hospitals, both neuropsychiatric and medical-surgical, are responsible for preventing the suicide of patients under their care. Hospital populations are at higher risk because they include people in heightened physical or emotional distress and because ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.32.2.99Publication date: 01 February 1981
Pages105–109Long-term, severely disabled psychiatric patients are almost by definition a marginal population. Yet the expectations of deinstitutionalization are often expressed in such terms as "helping them become a part of the mainstream of our society" and "...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.32.2.105Publication date: 01 February 1981
Pages110–114Basal ganglia side-effects caused by neuroleptic drugs are frequently ignored, misdiagnosed, or mistreated by the patient or physician. Such side-effects must be anticipated and appropriate management instituted so that patient compliance with the drug ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.32.2.110Publication date: 01 February 1981
Pages114–117A sizable number of youth at risk for psychiatric disabilities enter the juvenile justice system each year without sufficient screening mechanisms or treatment systems. In 1977 the children and youth division of a mental health center began a program of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.32.2.114Publication date: 01 February 1981
Pages118–120Efforts to eliminate the shortage of psychiatrists in rural areas have been relatively unsuccessful due to the special personal and professional problems facing the rural psychiatrist. The rural psychiatrist may feel personally isolated, encountering a ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.32.2.118