Psychiatric Services
- Volume 33
- Number 4
- April 1982
Article
Publication date: 01 April 1982
Pages263–264The differential diagnosis by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, third edition, of disorders that often arise in childhood is illustrated by this month's case. The guest expert is Dr. Theodore Shapiro, professor of psychiatry and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.33.4.263Publication date: 01 April 1982
Pages273–277Since 1970 community mental health centers have been seeing greater percentages of less seriously ill patients in spite of the growing numbers of seriously and chronically ill patients in the community. CMHC staffs are composed of less highly trained ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.33.4.273Publication date: 01 April 1982
Pages277–281From July of 1976 through December 1981, 67 psychiatrists who graduated primarily from American medical schools and who bad completed university residency training programs were recruited into Maryland's state mental health system. As of 1981, 43 of these ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.33.4.277Publication date: 01 April 1982
Pages282–286New uses are still being discovered for a number of psycbotropic agents that have been available for some time. Among the more important recent discoveries are the efficacy of the tricycle antidepressants for panic disorder and agoraphobia with panic ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.33.4.282Publication date: 01 April 1982
Pages287–291The three-way interview is a helpful and sometimes necessary adjunct to the supervision of psychiatric residents who are treating disturbed inpatients. Direct bedside observation of the interaction between therapist and patient can reveal evidence of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.33.4.287Publication date: 01 April 1982
Pages291–295A sample of 99 long-term patients at an urban community mental health-mental retardation center were interviewed to determine how they spent their time and their degree of happiness with their lives and the services they received at the center. More than ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.33.4.291Publication date: 01 April 1982
Pages295–298More than a half million mentally ill or mentally retarded individuals received Social Security or Supplemental Security Income disability payments in 1980. To become eligible for these payments, claimants must go through a multilayered adjudication ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.33.4.295Publication date: 01 April 1982
Pages299–303Puerto Ricans and other Hispanics have traditionally used the nuclear and extended family as vital support systems to deal with stress. Some Puerto Rican migrant families living in the United States have been suspected of being at high risk for mental ...
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