Psychiatric Services

Recent developments in biological psychiatry offer clinicians the opportunity to apply new techniques to the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders. For instance, the dexamethasone suppression test has been used in the differential diagnosis of ...

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Measuring Restrictiveness of Psychiatric Care

Publication date: 01 May 1982

Pages361–366

"Restrictiveness" is neither a narrow legal concept nor a clinical concept that encompasses all aspects of a patient and his treatment; it refers to several features of treatment that can infringe on individual freedoms. As part of a study to develop a ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.33.5.361

A Conceptual Model for Determining the Least Restrictive Treatment-Training Modality

Publication date: 01 May 1982

Pages367–370

Much attention has been paid in recent years to the concept of the least restrictive treatment or training for developmentally disabled individuals. However, few well-defined procedures exist for determining the restrictiveness of modalities commonly used ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.33.5.367

Estimating the Local Prevalence of Persons Needing Community Support Programs

Publication date: 01 May 1982

Pages370–373

As Community Support Programs for the chronically mentally ill expand, it becomes increasingly important to determine the number of individuals qualifying for these services. Although national prevalence data are currently available, they have only ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.33.5.370

Cost-Benefit Analysis of a Behavioral Program for Geriatric Inpatients

Publication date: 01 May 1982

Pages374–377

A behaviorally oriented treatment program was developed for geriatric patients at a state psychiatric hospital, in an attempt to demonstrate that active treatment for the elderly can be both socially beneficial and economically wise. Outcome data ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.33.5.374

The Neglected Alliance: The Inpatient Unit as a Consultant to Referring Therapists

Publication date: 01 May 1982

Pages377–381

During two years of work on an inpatient psychiatry unit in a general hospital, the authors became impressed with how often patient-therapist difficulties preceded the need to hospitalize a patient. Difficulties in the therapeutic relationship sometimes ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.33.5.377

CAPGRAS PHENOMENON, DELIRIUM, AND TRANSIENT HEPATIC DYSFUNCTION

Ronald Pies

Publication date: 01 May 1982

Pages382–383https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.33.5.382

STAFFING PATTERNS AND THE WEEKLY CYCLE OF COMMUNITY MEETINGS ON AN ADULT INPATIENT UNIT

Jonathan I. Ritvo

Publication date: 01 May 1982

Pages384–385https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.33.5.384

GROUP PSYCHOTHERAPY FOR ELDERLY FEMALE HISPANIC OUTPATIENTS

Publication date: 01 May 1982

Pages385–387https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.33.5.385

A PRELIMINARY REPORT ON EFFECTS OF INITIATING MEDICATION GROUPS AT A MENTAL HEALTH CLINIC

H. Steven Moffic

Publication date: 01 May 1982

Page387https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.33.5.387

THE "REVOLVING DOOR": A TRAP OR A LIFE STYLE?

Martin P. Geller

Publication date: 01 May 1982

Pages388–389https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.33.5.388

A FOOTNOTE FOR THE RECORD: DAN BLAIN'S ROLE IN NASMHPD

Harry C. Schnibbe

Publication date: 01 May 1982

Pages389–390https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.33.5.389

THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN TREATMENT AND PREVENTION IN MENTAL HEALTH

Publication date: 01 May 1982

Pages390–391https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.33.5.390

THE EFFECT OF A LOCKED DOOR ON A PSYCHIATRIC INPATIENT UNIT

Publication date: 01 May 1982

Page391

In a Brief Report published in the November 1981 issue, "The Effect of a Locked Door on a Psychiatric Inpatient Unit," by Francis W. Chiappa, Ph.D., and Steven J. Wilson, Ph.D. (pages 801-802), the wrong location was listed for the facility in which the ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.33.5.391