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Psychiatric Services

  • Volume 32
  • Number 9
  • September 1981

Article

Publication date: 01 September 1981

Pages607–615

Essential public policy features of the national movement to return institutionalized mentally retarded people to communi- ty settings include issues related to institutional census trends, class action litigation, cost "savings," and funding. The ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.32.9.607

Publication date: 01 September 1981

Pages616–620

In 1979 the commissioner of the New York State Office of Mental Health, after consulting with a committee of professionals, decided to adopt DSM-III as the psychiatric disorder classfication system for state-run facilities; locally operated facilities ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.32.9.616

Publication date: 01 September 1981

Pages620–624

Data collected from 900 general psychiatrists graduating from 27 state hospital and university residency programs between 1961 and 1976 is used to determine certain patterns of patient care productivity among psychiatrists. The study relates differences ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.32.9.620

Publication date: 01 September 1981

Pages625–628

The development of the community support system model and other efforts to decentralize psychiatric care for the severely disabled has made the future role of the state psychiatric hospital uncertain. The authors studied patient admissions from a ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.32.9.625

Publication date: 01 September 1981

Pages629–632

Families of schizophrenic patients frequently are ill equipped to handle the primary caretaking responsibilities that have fallen to them due to deinstitutionalization. The authors describe a program begun at a medical center in Southern California in ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.32.9.629

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