Psychiatric Services
- Volume 34
- Number 8
- August 1983
Article
Publication date: 01 August 1983
Pages679–680The guest expert is Dr. Henry Weinstein, who is clinical associate professor of psychiatry at the New York University Medical Center in New York City, director of forensic psychiatry services at Bellevue Hospital, and adjunct professor of law at the New ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.34.8.679Publication date: 01 August 1983
Pages695–702Part I of a two-part review of affective disorders focuses on recent epidemiologic and nosologic trends. Current clinical conceptualizations of the spectrum of affective disorders subsume many patients formerly considered schizophrenic, personality-...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.34.8.695Publication date: 01 August 1983
Pages702–708Behavioral medicine had its formal beginnings at a Yale University conference in 1977; thus, as a field, it is still in an embryonic state of development. Behavioral medicine practitioners focus on operationally defined behaviors to set treatment goals, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.34.8.702Publication date: 01 August 1983
Pages709–715The authors examine the broad field of behavior therapy, the theones underlying its development, and the techniques that are used to change behavior. They review recent developments in behavior therapy as they relate to behavioral medicine and to ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.34.8.709Publication date: 01 August 1983
Pages716–724Psychiatrists diagnose and treat the mental disorders of cancer patients, but they are also concerned with pain management, the patient's adaptation to the disease, and the attitudes of relatives and health care professionals toward the cancer patient. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.34.8.716Publication date: 01 August 1983
Pages724–728The Fairweather small-group model, developed some 20 years ago, has been proven to be an effective form of treatment for chronic patients who have spent long years in institutions. However, there have been no recent evaluations of how small-group programs ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.34.8.724Publication date: 01 August 1983
Pages729–733The original model for the community mental health center was a health-oriented treatment facility associated with a community hospital, operated under medical leadership, and staffed with other mental health professionals. For a variety of reasons, the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.34.8.729Publication date: 01 August 1983
Pages733–736Psychiatric hospitals are under pressure to reduce admissions as a way of lowering census. In a state hospital that established a screening team to refer inappropriate applicants elsewhere, a study was undertaken to compare applicants admitted for ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.34.8.733Publication date: 01 August 1983
Pages737–739The results of our study demonstrate the importance of symptom perception and medication in understanding which patients are likely to drop out of treatment. In situations where physician and patient agree about the symptoms, or where the patient ...
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