Psychiatric Services
- Volume 35
- Number 9
- September 1984
Article
Publication date: 01 September 1984
Pages883–954This month's guest expert is Dr. Robert Hales, lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Medical Corps and assistant professor of psychiatry in the School of Medicine of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland. Dr. Hales is ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.35.9.883Publication date: 01 September 1984
Pages887–893Unfortunately Miss Frumkin's story is not unique. There are an estimated 1.7 to 2.4 million chronically mentally ill persons in the United States. Like Miss Frumkin, many have drifted in and out of hospitals as the symptoms of chronic mental illness ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.35.9.887Publication date: 01 September 1984
Pages899–907Although homelessness among the chronically mentally ill is closely linked with deinstitutionalization, it is not the result of deinstitutionalization per se but of the way deinstitutionalization has been carried out. The lack of planning for structured ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.35.9.899Publication date: 01 September 1984
Pages914–917Applied research that is conducted in an atmosphere of urgency carries an implied risk. In the near future, findings from a number of studies of the service needs of the homeless mentally ill will become available to planners and service providers. Users ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.35.9.914Publication date: 01 September 1984
Pages917–921Efforts to alter the repeated use costly hospital-based psychiatric services and the underuse of community mental health services by some homeless adults have yielded few successes. To better understand these failed efforts, the authors interviewed 112 ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.35.9.917Publication date: 01 September 1984
Pages922–924Project HELP was established in New York City in 1982 as a mobile outreach unit providing crisis medical and psychiatric services to impaired homeless persons. The authors describe the demographic characteristics of the population served, the disposition ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.35.9.922Publication date: 01 September 1984
Pages925–928Case managers have been assigned a key role in community support systems (CSS) for deinstitutionalized chronic mental patients, yet little research has been published on how case managers actually work with clients. In separate intensive interviews the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.35.9.925Publication date: 01 September 1984
Pages928–933The extensive literature concerning public mental hospitals has largely been written from the perspective of administrators and systems analysts; most of the reports emphasize the frustrations and problems of working in public mental hospitals and the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.35.9.928Publication date: 01 September 1984
Pages934–936We have attempted to survey the current practice of inpatient treatment for the new cohort of chronic patients and to view it through the lenses of new glasses. Most controlled outcome studies have shown that outpatient treatment, which includes partial ...
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