Psychiatric Services
- Volume 33
- Number 10
- October 1982
Article
Publication date: 01 October 1982
Pages807–808A dramatic psychiatric case history appeared in the New Yorker in a series of articles entitled "The Patient" by journalist Susan Sheehan (1-4). Sylvia Frumkin, as the patient was called, is this month's DSM-III case study. Our guest expert is Andrew E. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.33.10.807Publication date: 01 October 1982
Pages819–823Accreditation by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals (JCAH) carries important financial implications and serves as a testimony to the quality of patient care provided by a hospital or a program. The author briefly reviews changes in the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.33.10.819Publication date: 01 October 1982
Pages824–828In recent years, several controlled studies have evaluated the value of different lengths of psychiatric hospitalization and of alternatives to hospitalization. The author reviews such studies, noting that most findings suggest that longer stay does not ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.33.10.824Publication date: 01 October 1982
Pages829–833The increased popularity of short-term psychiatric hospitalization has raised the question of what kinds of patients benefit most from this treatment. The authors examined the records of 612 patients admitted to an urban general hospital's psychiatric ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.33.10.829Publication date: 01 October 1982
Pages833–836The mental health emergency service is a critical triage point for making decisions about the delivery of a variety of services needed by an increasingly large elderly population. This study explores the roles of two mental health emergency services in ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.33.10.833Publication date: 01 October 1982
Pages837–840Burnout, the emotional state that accompanies an overload of stress, generally has been ascribed to organizational or personal causes. Motivational management is an approach to identifying the causes of burnout among workers and determining ways to ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.33.10.837Publication date: 01 October 1982
Pages841–843Of 452 patients seen during one year on a medical-school-affiliated general hospital psychiatric unit, 26 requested to see their charts. These patients tended to be younger, more likely to have character disorders, and less likely to have an affective ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.33.10.841Publication date: 01 October 1982
Pages844–846All kinds of residential treatment centers for children must deal with the question of how best to provide for the children's education. At least two models exist, the autonomous school and the integrated psychoeducational model. The author outlines the ...
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