Psychiatric Services
- Volume 37
- Number 4
- April 1986
Article
Publication date: 01 April 1986
Pages331–333This month's guest expert, Dr. Steven Katz, is commissioner of mental health for the State of New York, proftssor of clinical psychiatry at New York University School of Medicine, and a member of the faculty of the Columbia University Psychoanalytic ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.37.4.331Publication date: 01 April 1986
Pages339–340Dr. Eth's Introduction: The psychiatric emergency room commonly generates ethical conflicts. Perhaps the best known issue centers on civil commitment. Recent interest has also focused on confidentiality and the duty to protect third parties (the so-called ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.37.4.339Publication date: 01 April 1986
Pages353–357The family self-help movement in schizophrenia is in danger of losing its effectiveness, the authors believe. Many in the movement seem overly concerned with being accepted by professionals and others, which means that they become less single-minded in ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.37.4.353Psychotropic Prescribing Patterns of Nonpsychiatric Residents in a General Hospital in 1973 and 1982
Publication date: 01 April 1986
Pages357–361The findings of a study of the frequency and type of psychotropic drugs that nonpsychiatric residents prescribed for nonpsychiatric patients in a teaching hospital in 1982 were compared with the findings of a similar study in the same hospital nine years ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.37.4.357Publication date: 01 April 1986
Pages362–369The authors review recent research on definition, diagnosis, neuropathophysiology, treatment, management, and factors that increase risk of tardive dyskinesia, a severe and often unremitting movement disorder associated with neuroleptic treatment. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.37.4.362Publication date: 01 April 1986
Pages370–372The social support network of deinstitutionalized chronic mentally ill patients can help moderate life stresses and reduce the need for rehospitalization. The authors have developed a list of questions that can be used in assessing the various ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.37.4.370Publication date: 01 April 1986
Pages373–376Hospital utilization by crisisridden chronic mentally ill persons living in the community was studied after their participation in a network therapy program, which convenes a social network of relatives and friends to provide continuing emotional and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.37.4.373Publication date: 01 April 1986
Pages376–380The failure of research on longterm hospital treatment to show consistent relationships between length of stay and treatment outcome may reflect a need for more refined measures to evaluate long-term treatment. The authors developed an individualized ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.37.4.376Publication date: 01 April 1986
Pages380–385Data on capital projects funding in nonfederal U.S. hospitals in the years 1972, 1977, 1978, and 1981 were analyzed to identify changes in the number, cost, and funding sources of capital projects in public and private psychiatric hospitals and to compare ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.37.4.380Publication date: 01 April 1986
Pages386–390The hospital records of the nongeriatric population of a state hospital (N=191) were examined to identify the institution's worst recidivists. Twelve patients with a total of 276 admissions were found; six were diagnosed as schizophrenic and six as having ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.37.4.386Publication date: 01 April 1986
Pages391–395Actual psychiatric bed utilization in 16 metropolitan areas was compared with projected bed needs in those areas derived from seven common methods of assessing the need for inpatient psychiatric services. Six methods significantly underpredicted actual ...
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