Psychiatric Services
- Volume 36
- Number 8
- August 1985
Article
Publication date: 01 August 1985
Pages815–818The late-onset psychoses are a heterogeneous group of disorders, with differing prognoses and responses to medication. Despite this heterogeneity, the presentations of primary psychotic disorder and psychoses due to affective disorder or organic mental ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.36.8.815Publication date: 01 August 1985
Pages831–837Definition, understanding, and treatment of antisocial personality disorder continue to present difficulties, but there have been several encouraging developments. Recently published data on antisocial syndromes from several different disciplines have ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.36.8.831Publication date: 01 August 1985
Pages838–843The increasing divorce rate, the large number of women in the workforce, and the expanded role of fathers in parenting have led to a dramatic increase in child custody litigation. The law has responded to this growing problem in many ways, the foremost ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.36.8.838Publication date: 01 August 1985
Pages843–847The authors reviewed 200 requests for records of psychiatric patients submitted to a university-affiliated hospital in May and June 1983. They looked at the sources of and reasons for the requests and subsequent uses and handling of released information. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.36.8.843Publication date: 01 August 1985
Page847In the May 1985 H&CP, the article "Psychiatric Recidivism in a Psychosocial Setting: A Survival Analysis" by Paul J. Setze, Ph.D., and Gary R. Bond, Ph.D., contains two errors. On page 522, under "Study method," the number of black clients in the sample ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.36.8.847Publication date: 01 August 1985
Pages848–853The authors studied how the abuse of alcohol and other drugs and the failure to take prescribed medications are related to behavior problems shown by young adult mentally ill persons at home and in the community. The study was based on information ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.36.8.848Publication date: 01 August 1985
Pages853–858The authors describe the characteristics of 100 young adults with schizophrenia or schizophreniarelated disorders who are being treated in the community, patients who are at high risk for serious, long-term impairment but have not necessarily developed ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.36.8.853Publication date: 01 August 1985
Pages859–864The authors describe seven paradoxes that confront psychiatric residents being trained in the psychosocial treatment of chronic schizopbrenic patients in community settings. The paradoxes arise because the psychosocial framework necessary for working with ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.36.8.859Publication date: 01 August 1985
Pages865–869The authors studied 125 chronic patients who entered treatment at five community mental health clinics to identify the patient and service predictors of continuation in treatment. Patients who remained in treatment at the end of one year were ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.36.8.865Publication date: 01 August 1985
Pages870–875The author discusses problems that have bindered active collaboration between psychiatrists and primary care physicians, presents models for clinical interaction between them, and describes the role of psychiatrists in the education of primary care ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.36.8.870Publication date: 01 August 1985
Pages876–878The Brookdale School Program provides mental health consultation and direct services to more than 450 children in a Brooklyn school district through an unusual network involving the local hospital's psychiatry department, the community mental health ...
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