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Psychiatric Services

  • Volume 36
  • Number 8
  • August 1985

Article

Publication date: 01 August 1985

Pages815–818

The 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.36.8.815

Publication date: 01 August 1985

Pages831–837

Definition, 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.36.8.831

Publication date: 01 August 1985

Pages838–843

The 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.36.8.838

Publication date: 01 August 1985

Pages843–847

The 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.36.8.843

Publication date: 01 August 1985

Page847

In 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.36.8.847

Publication date: 01 August 1985

Pages848–853

The 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.36.8.848

Publication date: 01 August 1985

Pages853–858

The 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.36.8.853

Publication date: 01 August 1985

Pages859–864

The 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.36.8.859

Publication date: 01 August 1985

Pages865–869

The 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.36.8.865

Publication date: 01 August 1985

Pages870–875

The 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.36.8.870

Publication date: 01 August 1985

Pages876–878

The 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 ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.36.8.876

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