Psychiatric Services
- Volume 35
- Number 10
- October 1984
Article
Publication date: 01 October 1984
Pages979–994Day care is a vitally needed form of respite within the continuum of resources required by demented clients and their families over the course of the illness. The benefits provided to clients and caregivers by this form of respite are important topics for ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.35.10.979Publication date: 01 October 1984
Pages999–1008In the past ten years developments in social psychology, neurochemistry, learning theory, and psychophysiology have expanded the concept of chronic pain into a biopsychosocial model, in which pain is viewed as a form of abnormal illness behavior ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.35.10.999Publication date: 01 October 1984
Page1008In the August issue of H&CP the academic degree of the second author of "The Link Between Alcoholism and Affective Disorders" was listed incorrectly; the author should have been cited as Jean M. Rothgery, R.N., M.S.N. The staff regret the error.
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.35.10.1008Publication date: 01 October 1984
Pages1009–1013The author argues that for-profit hospitals threaten the integrity of the health care system because they are designed to maximize charges and profits rather than equity and quality. He discusses the most detrimental results of an unrestrained profit ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.35.10.1009Publication date: 01 October 1984
Pages1013–1016The author presents the case for investor-owned hospitals based on his work experience in both nonprofit and for-profit hospitals. Viewing investor-owned hospitals as a natural development within a capitalistic democracy, be discusses the origins of the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.35.10.1013Publication date: 01 October 1984
Pages1017–1023Psychosocial rehabilitation services, while sorely needed by patients with prolonged mental illness, are not usually offered as part of hospital psychiatry. The authors describe the Veterans Resource Program (VRP), a hospital-based psychosocial ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.35.10.1017Publication date: 01 October 1984
Pages1023–1028To study the efficacy of social skills training and day hospital treatment for schizophrenic patients, the authors treated 20 chronic schizophrenic patients in a 12-week day hospital program and 44 patients in the same program supplemented by ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.35.10.1023Publication date: 01 October 1984
Pages1029–1033Many older, severely dependent patients in large psychiatric hospitals, who are often inadequately treated with traditional psychiatric approaches, have no realistic chance of improving or of returning to the community. At Marlboro (N.J.) Psychiatric ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.35.10.1029Publication date: 01 October 1984
Pages1033–1036The author interviewed staff on three psychiatric wards to elicit their response to pregnant colleagues. Staff expressed particular concern about protecting the pregnant women from possible patient assaults. Some staff members were overprotective or ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.35.10.1033