Psychiatric Services
- Volume 36
- Number 4
- April 1985
Article
Publication date: 01 April 1985
Pages338–345Depression is not a universal pathological state inevitably found among the aged. Yet it is common, easily misdiagnosed, or not diagnosed at all among those in the later stage of the life cycle. The assessment of depression in the elderly requires a ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.36.4.338Publication date: 01 April 1985
Pages363–368During the past decade major changes have occurred in the role of the state mental health program director. Those changes have made that position more complex, more administrative, and less medical. The author discusses four themes in particular: the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.36.4.363Publication date: 01 April 1985
Pages368–373Studies have documented the predeliction of New York hospitals to overdiagnose schizophreniaand to underdiagnose affective disorders. To further investigate that predeliction following the introduction of DSM-III diagnostic criteria, seven clinical ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.36.4.368Publication date: 01 April 1985
Pages373–377Observers rated 11 aspects of the social environments of 40 community care homes. Four basictypes of homes were identified through a cluster analysis of these ratings. Discriminant analysis suggested that homes in the clusters differed primarily along two ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.36.4.373Publication date: 01 April 1985
Page377In the January 1985 H&CP, on page 86, the publisher of the book Using Computers in Clinical Practice: Psychotherapy and Mental Health Applications, edited by Marc D. Schwartz, should have been listed as Haworth Press, New York City.
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.36.4.377Publication date: 01 April 1985
Pages378–382Although much has been written on the importance of the environment as a therapeutic modality, few studies have examined the specific characteristics of community residential environments that influence the adjustment of the mentally ill. This study, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.36.4.378Publication date: 01 April 1985
Pages383–388Residential community care facicilities for deinstitutionalized patients are severely criticized for providing poor-quality care. Yet deinstitutionalization occurred without adequate planning or funding, and facility administrators were left on their own ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.36.4.383Publication date: 01 April 1985
Pages389–393A practical method for estimating the size oftbe noninstitutionalized chronic mentally ill population in state and local areas, including those not currently receiving services, has been developed. The method relies on national and state counts by zip ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.36.4.389Publication date: 01 April 1985
Pages393–395In 1983 the cooperative efforts of the Western Massachusetts Alliance for Mentally Ill Citizens and the Massachusetts Department of Mental Health led to the development of a program in which family members of patients at Northampton State Hospital monitor ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.36.4.393Publication date: 01 April 1985
Pages396–403Social skills training has proved to be effective in increasing the social competence of chronic mental patients. The authors describe three models of social skills training, all of which involve role playing by the patient and modeling, prompting, ...
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