Psychiatric Services
- Volume 36
- Number 5
- May 1985
Article
Publication date: 01 May 1985
Pages463–474Discussing treatment planning for a medically ill borderline patient this month is Dr. Marshall Thomas, who was chief resident in psychiatry and is now a career resident at Fort Logan Mental Health Center in Denver, and Dr. Troy Thompson, who is associate ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.36.5.463Publication date: 01 May 1985
Pages489–496Although they have not yet profoundly affected the clinical practice of psycbiatry, five new imaging techniques—computed tomography, brain electrical activity mapping, cerebral blood flow techniques, positron emission tomography, and nuclear magnetic ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.36.5.489Publication date: 01 May 1985
Pages497–503The management literature of the past few decades was imbued with a humanistic, behavioral science orientation in which the formal use of power was down played. But with the changing economic climate has come a reappraisal of concepts of power and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.36.5.497Publication date: 01 May 1985
Pages503–508Many clinicians do not agree on whether or to what extent sexually abused children suffer emotional harm. An analysis of behavioral problems among 112 preschool, school-age, and adolescent children who had been sexually abused indicated that the preschool ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.36.5.503Publication date: 01 May 1985
Pages509–512A number of questions must be addressed in order to effectively manage cases of sexual abuse in children. The author discusses when sexual abuse should be suspected, why physicians are often reluctant to manage such cases, who should perform the medical ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.36.5.509Publication date: 01 May 1985
Pages513–516Three new antidepressants have been marketed in the United States since 1980, and about two dozen more are being evaluated. In a 1983 workshop convened by the National Institute of Mental Health, participants examined the claims made for the newer ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.36.5.513Publication date: 01 May 1985
Pages517–520The mental health field must deal with peer review as a fact of life. However, many providers do not understand how to describe the nature or process of the psychotherapy they use, and many peer reviewers seem to lack knowledge of what constitutes a given ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.36.5.517Publication date: 01 May 1985
Pages521–524Survival analysis, a methodology employed in studies of survival after diagnosis of a life-threatening physical illness, is used to examine psychiatric recidivism. The probability of survival in the community without rehospitalization was calculated for ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.36.5.521Publication date: 01 May 1985
Pages525–528In a study of the effects of a shortterm environmental intervention, alterations were made in furniture arrangements in ward dayrooms in a maximum-security hospital in the United Kingdom. Over two 14-day periods, group seating patterns were introduced ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.36.5.525Publication date: 01 May 1985
Pages529–533In 1981 the Dallas Fire Department began a new program for juvenile firesetters. Based on an interview graphing technique that helps the juvenile firesetter to correlate triggering events with feelings leading to aggressive firesetting behavior, the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.36.5.529Publication date: 01 May 1985
Page572The Ideas column features brief notes about interesting or unusual programs, novel approaches to therapy, and useful resources in the mental health field. Contributions to Ideas are welcomed. Items, not exceeding 200 words, should be sent to the Editor, ...
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