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Psychiatric Services

  • Volume 34
  • Number 2
  • February 1983

Article

Publication date: 01 February 1983

Pages115–116

In this month's column on differential therapeutics, the guest expert is Dr. William Carpenter, who is professor of psychiatry at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and director of the Maryland Psychiatric Research Center. Dr. Carpenter has ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.34.2.115

Publication date: 01 February 1983

Pages129–134

Many past studies of data on deinstitutionalization have used an overly simplistic and often misleading approach, which has led to a number of "myths" of deinstitutionalization. The authors present data on the changing mental health service system ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.34.2.129

Publication date: 01 February 1983

Pages135–139

Deinstitutionalization has led to a rapid shift from reliance on state hospitals to use of community-based inpatient psychiatric services. While these inpatient units were initially envisioned as an integral part of the community mental health system, a ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.34.2.135

Publication date: 01 February 1983

Pages140–145

Deinstitutionalization has dramatically reduced the state psychiatric hospital population in California from 37,000 in 1955 to only 2,500 at the present time. In 1980 and 1982 the California Department of Mental Health conducted two surveys to assess ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.34.2.140

Publication date: 01 February 1983

Pages145–149

An examination of the characteristics of patients transferred to a state hospital after their treatment in a rural community general hospital had failed provides some data for defining the state hospital's role in relation to such patients. Of 2,128 ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.34.2.145

Publication date: 01 February 1983

Pages150–154

Recent studies have reported conflicting results on the impact of intrainstitutional relocation on chronic psychiatric patients. As part of a hospital renovation project, 82 patients were assessed over a period of eight months to determine the effects of ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.34.2.150

Publication date: 01 February 1983

Pages154–157

Due to fiscal constraints on health care providers, the utilization of time of mental health professionals has come under close examination. The authors conducted a study of the work habits of 193 psychiatrists, psychologists, nurses, rehabilitation ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.34.2.154

Publication date: 01 February 1983

Pages159–163

Just as the deinstitutionalization movement has swept the United States in recent years, the effort to provide alternatives to public hospitals has been government policy in Britain for the past 20 years. While problems remain, Britain, which reduced its ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.34.2.159

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