Psychiatric Services
- Volume 32
- Number 3
- March 1981
Article
Publication date: 01 March 1981
Pages173–178The public's often negative response to two decades of deinstitutionalization policies remains a substantial barrier to the integration of the mentally ill into the community. Both mental health policymakers and public education specialists must support ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.32.3.173Publication date: 01 March 1981
Pages178–180Knowledge of the effect of the geographical proximity of a mental health facility on the public's attitudes toward the mentally ill is useful for community education efforts to reduce public opposition to a facility and rejection of its patients. To study ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.32.3.178Publication date: 01 March 1981
Pages181–185The psychiatric emergency ward of the private general hospital is faced with increasing demands for services and a changing role as a result of the progression of deinstitutionalization and shifts in the relationships between public and private ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.32.3.181Publication date: 01 March 1981
Pages185–188Electroconvulsive therapy in recent years has received extensive coverage in the mass media, much of it negative. However, little can be found in either the professional literature or the popular press on the attitudes of professionals, patients, and the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.32.3.185Publication date: 01 March 1981
Pages188–193The management of sexual and emotional intimacy among inpatients is a prominent concern on psychiatric units. A survey of psychiatrists on 70 psychiatric units throughout Ontario shows that the percentage of units that separated the involved patients was ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.32.3.188Publication date: 01 March 1981
Pages194–197Since the implementation of deinstitutionalization policies began in the early 1960s, large numbers of patients have been discharged from state mental hospitals to the community. Given the negative aspects of institutional life, it was assumed that ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.32.3.194Publication date: 01 March 1981
Pages198–200The relationship between medical and psychiatric utilization of services was examined in a two-year study of two groups of psychiatric patients: high users of psychiatric services (more than ten visits in one year) and low users of psychiatric services (...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.32.3.198Publication date: 01 March 1981
Pages201–203The National Institute of Mental Health initiated the community support systems program in 1977 to improve services to the mentally disabled living in the community as a result of the deinstitutionalization movement. Georgia was one of several states to ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.32.3.201Past Issues
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