Psychiatric Services
- Volume 33
- Number 3
- March 1982
Article
Publication date: 01 March 1982
Pages189–197This article analyzes the periodical and "fugitive" literature concerned with an emerging psychiatric service entity, young adult chronic patients. The increasing prominence of a young adult patient population results from the confluence of two primary ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.33.3.189Publication date: 01 March 1982
Pages197–203Shortly after the 1963 passage of the Community Mental Health Centers Act, New York State launched the construction of four new psychiatric centers, including the Richard H. Hutchings Psychiatric Center in Syracuse. The Hutchings acute care crisis ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.33.3.197Publication date: 01 March 1982
Pages203–207The authors draw on sociological writings to develop a theoretical model of adjustment to community living in terms of personal attributes, and test the model with data descriptive of a representative sample of 1,471 chronically mentally ill adults ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.33.3.203Publication date: 01 March 1982
Pages208–211This paper presents the results of a 1980 survey of a random sample of 1,471 chronically mentally disabled adults in community support systems sponsored by the National Institute of Mental Health. Drawing on data reported by 248 case managers using the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.33.3.208Publication date: 01 March 1982
Pages212–215The reliability and validity of psychiatrists' predictions of a patient's potential for suicide are increasingly being questioned, both by mental health professionals and by the courts. The authors describe a study conducted in 1978 to measure the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.33.3.212Publication date: 01 March 1982
Pages216–219In 1973 Washington State changed its civil commitment law to more rigorously control the number of involuntary commitments in a move consistent with the national trend toward deinstitutionalization of the mentally ill and the development of community ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.33.3.216Publication date: 01 March 1982
Pages220–223Elderly psychiatric patients confined to institutions frequently become increasingly isolated and debilitated. The verbal therapies and medications traditionally used to help remotivate patients have not been found to be as effective in dealing with these ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.33.3.220Past Issues
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