Psychiatric Services
- Volume 32
- Number 7
- July 1981
Article
Publication date: 01 July 1981
Pages463–469A new generation of persistently dysfunctional young adults (aged 18 to 35) has emerged in the community, requiring new programs in community care. This population, which includes a wide range of diagnostic groups, is under study at a suburban New York ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.32.7.463Publication date: 01 July 1981
Pages470–474A subgroup of chronic mentally ill persons who have bad little or no state hospitalization and who are difficult to engage in existing systems of community care is emerging in major urban areas. Observations made at a large municipal general hospital ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.32.7.470Publication date: 01 July 1981
Pages475–478Deinstitutionalization has created a new type of patient—the new young chronic—who has received most or all of his treatment during brief hospital stays and through extended contact with outpatient community care programs. A one-year study of 119 new ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.32.7.475Publication date: 01 July 1981
Pages479–481In a population of almost 1,100 patients in an urban hospital's aftercare program for the chronically mentally ill, 137 patients (12.5 per cent) were found to have nonpsychotic diagnoses. Patients with nonpsychotic diagnoses tended to be older at the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.32.7.479Publication date: 01 July 1981
Pages482–485To examine the influence of intake procedures on patients' appearance for therapy, information was gathered on two different intake procedures used on the outpatient service of a large mental health center. Prospective patients calling Team 1 were ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.32.7.482Publication date: 01 July 1981
Pages486–490The relationship between stress and marital dysfunction was examined in 1979-80 through a study of two demographically matched groups of married couples. The study group consisted of couples who had been referred for therapy for marital problems while the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.32.7.486Publication date: 01 July 1981
Pages490–492In a one-year period, 41 patients suffering from dementia presented to a large psychiatric hospital; four were found to have reversible etiologies. In addition, 16 elderly patients with admission diagnoses of depression were found to be suffering from ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.32.7.490Publication date: 01 July 1981
Pages493–496The high readmission rates of discharged psychiatric patients have forced mental health professionals to play closer attention to aftercare planning. A program was developed at a psychiatric hospital in Ontario in 1977 to deal with "problem patients"—...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.32.7.493Past Issues
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