Psychiatric Services
- Volume 32
- Number 8
- August 1981
Article
Publication date: 01 August 1981
Pages533–534This month's case illustrates how the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, third edition, has categorized disorders in which affective and psychotic features occur simultaneously. The patient also presents an interesting combination of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.32.8.533Publication date: 01 August 1981
Pages537–546Practical and scientific developments have recently focused attention on treatment selection in psychiatry. Based on the research literature, the opinions of leading practitioners, and the authors' clinical experience, tentative guidelines for treatment ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.32.8.537Publication date: 01 August 1981
Pages547–549The mental health director in a health maintenance organization must successfully negotiate with a number of "partners" in the community and within the HMO in order to deliver high-quality services in a cost-effective fashion. These partners are companies ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.32.8.547Publication date: 01 August 1981
Pages555–560Despite growing interest in ethical matters in psychiatry, little attention has been paid to means of teaching ethics to mental health professionals. In a monthly "ethics rounds" developed in a community mental health center, the co-leaders of the rounds ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.32.8.555Publication date: 01 August 1981
Pages561–564In a 256-bed general hospital, psychiatric patients are cared for on a single unit with medical patients. The unit, developed in collaboration with a state university's medical school, has been employed successfully in the teaching of psychiatric ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.32.8.561Publication date: 01 August 1981
Pages565–567The 1979 Consolidated Standards for Psychiatric Facilities of the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals are performance-oriented, with emphasis on the identification and resolution of problems intetfering with treatment goals. Nearly 200 of these ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.32.8.565Publication date: 01 August 1981
Pages567–571In July 1980 the federal government established new requirements for protecting the personal funds of residents of intermediate care facilities for the mentally retarded. The regulations grew out of dissatisfaction with state laws and with the Department ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.32.8.567Past Issues
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