Psychiatric Services
- Volume 35
- Number 6
- June 1984
Article
Publication date: 01 June 1984
Pages573–580A recently labeled psycbiatric service entity, young adult chronic patients (YACPs), is gaining widespread recognition in the professional and popular literature. This analytical overview of the literature demonstrates that the YACP concept has been ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.35.6.573Publication date: 01 June 1984
Pages580–584Although observers agree that the police play an important role in involuntary civil commitment of mentally ill individuals, there are scant empirical data to document the importance of the police in swaying the commitment decision. The authors studied 3,...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.35.6.580Publication date: 01 June 1984
Pages585–589Because of changes in Ohio mental health legislation in 1978, mentally disordered criminal offenders can now be turned over to the civil probate court for civil commitment procedures. In part because many officials in the civil hospital system fear the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.35.6.585Publication date: 01 June 1984
Pages589–594In 1980 New York State's Office of Mental Health began operation of a program designed to provide a secure treatment unit at each of the 23 state psychiatric centers. As part of a research project to assess the operation of the units, demographic and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.35.6.589Publication date: 01 June 1984
Pages595–600The number of young adult chronic patients, particularly males, has risen not only in community mental health programs but also among the inpatient populations of state hospitals. To assess the chronicity of these young adult patients, the authors divided ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.35.6.595Publication date: 01 June 1984
Pages601–605As part of a large cooperative study undertaken by the Veterans Administration (VA) to identify the ward characteristics of effective psychiatric programs, 123 treatment characteristics were analyzed using four measures of patient posthospital community ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.35.6.601Publication date: 01 June 1984
Pages605–616The activities and interests of quality assurance programs have changed dramatically in recent years, in response to the government's, the public's, and the health care field's concerns with spiraling health care costs and diminishing health care funds. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.35.6.605Publication date: 01 June 1984
Pages617–619The courses within the core curriculum program have achieved their primary objective of extending the educational resources of an urban university to a network of rural mental health agencies. Additional benefits have been derived from the program. The ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.35.6.617