Psychiatric Services
- Volume 32
- Number 5
- May 1981
Article
Publication date: 01 May 1981
Pages311–319A wealth of studies support the assertion that patients seen by medical doctors for physical complaints can often be helped by psychotherapeutic intervention. Many physical ailments have been linked to emotional problems, and practitioners are beginning ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.32.5.311Publication date: 01 May 1981
Pages319–322Despite careful screening, community mental health centers occasionally admit to their inpatient units patients who prove difficult to manage and who require treatment in a more restrictive setting, or they admit patients who, by the nature of their ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.32.5.319Publication date: 01 May 1981
Pages323–325For 150 years public institutions, caught between society's insistence that all needy persons receive some kind of services and taxpayers' reluctance to support such services, have been forced to take in all patients who have no place to go, without ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.32.5.323Publication date: 01 May 1981
Pages326–330Twenty-seven chronically ill mental patients were followed up four years after their discharge from a state hospital to the Massachusetts Mental Health Center. In interviews with the patients and their caregivers, data were gathered on the patients' ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.32.5.326Publication date: 01 May 1981
Pages330–334The Quarterway House was founded in December 1978 to deinstitutionalize and provide rehabilitation services to a small group of long-term, seriously ill inpatients of the Massachusetts Mental Health Center. The purposes of the residential program are to ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.32.5.330Publication date: 01 May 1981
Pages335–339To meet the housing needs of deinstitutionalized clients characterized by low incomes, isolation from their families, and inability to function independently, the Massachusetts Mental Health Center has developed a range of community residential settings. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.32.5.335Publication date: 01 May 1981
Pages339–343Because of recent advances in the care of the chronically mentally ill, psychiatric residents need to have more specialized training in the treatment of this group of patients. The Massachusetts Mental Health Center has developed a training program in ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.32.5.339