Psychiatric Services
- Volume 34
- Number 2
- February 1983
Article
Publication date: 01 February 1983
Pages115–116In 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.34.2.115Publication date: 01 February 1983
Pages129–134Many 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.34.2.129Publication date: 01 February 1983
Pages135–139Deinstitutionalization 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.34.2.135Publication date: 01 February 1983
Pages140–145Deinstitutionalization 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.34.2.140Publication date: 01 February 1983
Pages145–149An 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.34.2.145Publication date: 01 February 1983
Pages150–154Recent 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.34.2.150Publication date: 01 February 1983
Pages154–157Due 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.34.2.154Publication date: 01 February 1983
Pages159–163Just 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