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Psychiatric Services

  • Volume 36
  • Number 1
  • January 1985

Article

Publication date: 01 January 1985

Pages11–21

Writing 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.36.1.11

Publication date: 01 January 1985

Pages39–45

The 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.36.1.39

Publication date: 01 January 1985

Pages46–50

Psychiatry 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.36.1.46

Publication date: 01 January 1985

Pages51–54

The 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.36.1.51

Publication date: 01 January 1985

Pages54–55

The 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.36.1.54

Publication date: 01 January 1985

Pages56–62

New 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.36.1.56

Publication date: 01 January 1985

Pages62–68

A 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.36.1.62

Publication date: 01 January 1985

Pages69–73

The 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.36.1.69

Publication date: 01 January 1985

Pages73–76

The 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.36.1.73

Publication date: 01 January 1985

Pages81-b–81

Sally 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.

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.36.1.81-b

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