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Psychiatric Services

  • Volume 37
  • Number 4
  • April 1986

Article

Publication date: 01 April 1986

Pages331–333

This 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.37.4.331

Publication date: 01 April 1986

Pages339–340

Dr. 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.37.4.339

Publication date: 01 April 1986

Pages353–357

The 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.37.4.353

Publication date: 01 April 1986

Pages357–361

The 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.37.4.357

Publication date: 01 April 1986

Pages362–369

The 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.37.4.362

Publication date: 01 April 1986

Pages370–372

The 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.37.4.370

Publication date: 01 April 1986

Pages373–376

Hospital 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.37.4.373

Publication date: 01 April 1986

Pages376–380

The 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.37.4.376

Publication date: 01 April 1986

Pages380–385

Data 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.37.4.380

Publication date: 01 April 1986

Pages386–390

The 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.37.4.386

Publication date: 01 April 1986

Pages391–395

Actual 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 ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.37.4.391

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