Psychiatric Services
- Volume 34
- Number 3
- March 1983
Article
Publication date: 01 March 1983
Pages209–210This month's column will provide answers to commonly asked questions about the classssfication and criteria for organic mental disorders in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, third edition. Readers are urged to submit questions ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.34.3.209Publication date: 01 March 1983
Pages215–226This sociological review of the literature analyzes the delivery of psychiatric services in rural America. Nonsocial, demographic, socioeconomic, interpersonal, and ideological influences are considered. Factors encouraging change in the psychiatric ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.34.3.215Publication date: 01 March 1983
Pages227–229Mental health professionals, including psychiatrists, working in rural areas face handicaps like distance, deficient support services, professional isolation, and lack of continuing education opportunities. Hence many rural community mental health centers,...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.34.3.227Publication date: 01 March 1983
Pages229–233The stigma associated with mental illness is purported to be a major factor in the resistance of rural residents to mental health services. Through mail questionnaires and personal interviews, the authors gathered data from 3,057 rural residents in six ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.34.3.229Publication date: 01 March 1983
Pages233–238The relative lack of objective data delineating rural needs has limited the development of creative training programs. The authors describe the process of developing a network approach to teaching psychiatric emergency skills. Using information collected ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.34.3.233Publication date: 01 March 1983
Pages238–242The phenomenal growth in the number and population of nursing homes in this country over the past 40 years is a sign of tbe over-reliance on institutional approaches to carefor the ill elderly and the underuse ofother community alternatives. The authors ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.34.3.238Publication date: 01 March 1983
Pages243–248Because of continuing diagnostic confusion, little empirical evidence exists to guide the clinician in treating patients with antisocial and borderline personalities. However, there is an extensive clinical literature based on the experience of many ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.34.3.243Publication date: 01 March 1983
Pages249–254Emergency involuntary commitment is provided in a majority of states to allowfor rapid response to patients who are acutely violent and must be hospitalized quickly. The authors investigated the use of emergency hospitalization in North Carolina and found ...
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