Psychiatric Services
- Volume 37
- Number 10
- October 1986
Article
Publication date: 01 October 1986
Pages993–994This month's guest expert, Dr. John Oldham, discusses a case in which several treatment approaches yielded unsuccessful outcomes. Dr. Oldham is deputy director of the New York State Psychiatric Institute and associate professor of clinical psychiatry at ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.37.10.993Publication date: 01 October 1986
Pages1001–1006Although the medical and psychosocial problems posed by acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) are unique, interventions to treat AIDS-related psychiatric disorders are currently available. The depression, delirium, and denial that occur in medically ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.37.10.1001Publication date: 01 October 1986
Pages1007–1011Based on archival data, the author chronicles the history of the Canton (S.D.) Asylum for Insane Indians, which was established by Congress in 1903 and was closed in 1934 because of inadequate conditions. In 1926 a nationwide survey found that patients at ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.37.10.1007Publication date: 01 October 1986
Pages1017–1021The current emphasis on university and state collaboration to recruit competent psychiatrists to the public sector may adversely affect foreign medical graduates (FMGs) working in state hospitals, many of whom received inadequate training in autonomous ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.37.10.1017Publication date: 01 October 1986
Pages1021–1024Members of the American Psychiatric Association who graduated from foreign medical schools, currently 25 percent of APA membership, are increasingly integrating themselves into the mainstream of American psychiatry. Nevertheless, an APA survey of members ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.37.10.1021Publication date: 01 October 1986
Pages1025–1029Forty percent of inpatient psychiatric episodes are treated in general hospitals without psychiatric units, but little is known about these patients and their treatment. A survey of medical records personnel at 452 hospitals without psychiatric units ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.37.10.1025Publication date: 01 October 1986
Pages1030–1034The lack of knowledge about basic manpower issues in the community mental health system led the authors to devise five questions that address manpower issues of general interest to community mental health system managers. The questions concern the ratio ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.37.10.1030Publication date: 01 October 1986
Pages1035–1040Although transfer of psychiatric patients from one unit to another is a routine clinical procedure, it may constitute a crisis for patients and their families. The 61 recently transferred patients and 46 family members interviewed for this study expressed ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.37.10.1035Recent Developments in the Care, Treatment, and Rehabilitation of the Chronic Mentally Ill in Greece
Publication date: 01 October 1986
Pages1041–1044The chronic mentally ill in Greece are primarily cared for in large public mental hospitals or by their families because of the absence of community-based alternatives and the centralization of existing services in Athens and Thessaloniki. However, in the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.37.10.1041Publication date: 01 October 1986
Pages1047–1049Although there has been no substantiation by any methodologically sound investigation, it is the feeling of the staff, after many months of these meetings, that high-management patients are receiving better care, that the clinic is functioning more as a ...
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