Psychiatric Services
- Volume 37
- Number 11
- November 1986
Article
Publication date: 01 November 1986
Pages1083–1085The abstinence-oriented recovery model is best suited for individuals who are somewhat motivated, who are still in a relatively early stage in the drug progression, and who can afford a potentially expensive intervention. The therapeutic community seems ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.37.11.1083Publication date: 01 November 1986
Pages1086–1088Dr. Eth's introduction: This month's column presents a systems view of the controversy about patients' rights versus patients' needs. Professor Ziegenfuss believes that the recurring conflict between patient autonomy and clinician beneficence can be ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.37.11.1086Publication date: 01 November 1986
Pages1105–1114Although supportive psychotberapy techniques are more widely used than expressive or insight-oriented techniques, particularly with hospitalized or chronically illpatients, supportive treatment strategies have been underrepresented in the literature and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.37.11.1105Publication date: 01 November 1986
Pages1115–1118Canada's universal health insurrance system is designed to assure all Canadians access to free hospital and medical treatment. Each province has bad considerable latitude in administering the system within its borders. To cope with rising costs, most ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.37.11.1115Publication date: 01 November 1986
Pages1119–1125Characteristics of use of mental health services by 4,254 persons enrolled in the Rand Health Insurance Study were analyzed in an attempt to predict patterns of use by a general population with assigned insurance coverage. Families in the study, whose ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.37.11.1119Publication date: 01 November 1986
Pages1126–1130The estimated 1.7 to 2.4 million Americans who sufferfrom chronic mental illness are poorly served by the current nonsystem of services. No agency at any level is responsible for coordination of funding, treatment, and care. Since the mid-l950s funding ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.37.11.1126Publication date: 01 November 1986
Pages1131–1135The psychiatric health facility (PHF) is a new kind of California health facility licensed for psychiatric inpatient treatment. PHFs provide acute short-term treatment in nonhospital settings that have more flexible facility and staffing requirements than ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.37.11.1131Publication date: 01 November 1986
Pages1136–1143A comprehensive cost comparison was made of resource utilization by seriously disabled chronic psychiatric patients randomly assigned to inpatient care and to an experimental residential program that provided an intermediate level of 24-hour care. At the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.37.11.1136Publication date: 01 November 1986
Pages1158–1160This program can be replicated in any setting that requires the evaluatiori and accountability of services and programs. It has proven that evaluation of mental health services by corporate executives on a short-term basis provides the evaluators with a ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.37.11.1158