Psychiatric Services
- Volume 36
- Number 1
- January 1985
Article
Publication date: 01 January 1985
Pages11–21Writing as guest expert in this month's treatment planning column is Dr. Stuart Yudofsky, who is director of the department of psychiatry at Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh and associate professor of clinical psychiatry at Columbia University ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.36.1.11Publication date: 01 January 1985
Pages39–45The National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors surveyed all state mental health directors, through a series of mail questionnaires, to determine their national priorities for mental health care in the 1980s. In a ranking of 62 issues, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.36.1.39Publication date: 01 January 1985
Pages46–50Psychiatry faces a vast array of problems today, including its inability to implement programs for the chronic mentally ill and to apply principles of differential therapeutics, the lack of funds for community services, and the continuing severe ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.36.1.46Publication date: 01 January 1985
Pages51–54The author discusses psychiatrists' objections to the insanity defense, including the negative publicity generated by murder trials in which psychiatrists provide expert testimony. He also examines the legal profession's attitudes toward the defense and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.36.1.51Publication date: 01 January 1985
Pages54–55The author considers the merits of the insanity defense in light of three premises. First, a defendant's sanity must be taken into account both in assessing culpability and in assigning punishment for a crime. Second, all members of society must be ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.36.1.54Publication date: 01 January 1985
Pages56–62New and emerging roles for psychiatric-mental health nurses, certification programs for graduate and experienced baccalaureate nurses, and the emergence of clinical nursing research are only some of the many changes occurring in the field of psychiatric- ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.36.1.56The Multidisciplinary Treatment Plan: A Format for Enhancing Activity Therapy Department Involvement
Publication date: 01 January 1985
Pages62–68A structured, goal-oriented format for enhancing the involvement of activity therapy disciplines in the multidisciplinary treatment planning process has been developed in a large private psychiatric teaching hospital. The format, an adaptation of the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.36.1.62Publication date: 01 January 1985
Pages69–73The diverse levels of individual functioning and constantly changing membership in short-term acute care groups challenge the development of true group process. The authors review the recently developing literature on short-term acute care groups, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.36.1.69Publication date: 01 January 1985
Pages73–76The murder of a five-year-old boy and his mother disrupted the entire small community of the preschool he had attended. A two-stage mental health intervention consisting of separate group sessions with the preschoolers, teachers, and parents was initiated ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.36.1.73Publication date: 01 January 1985
Pages81-b–81Sally Moltzen should have been listed as co-author of the paper entitled "Mobile Medical Screening Teams for Public Programs," which appeared on pages 1151-1152 of the November 1984 issue. The editorial staff regret the error.
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