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Psychiatric Services

  • Volume 37
  • Number 6
  • June 1986

Article

Publication date: 01 June 1986

Pages551–554

Changes in health care economics will shape the future of psychiatric practice. Psychiatrists will work as part of a team of mental health professionals, and many will emerge as team leaders. They will recognize that they must more clearly identify the ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.37.6.551

Publication date: 01 June 1986

Pages577–579

This month's guest expert is Dr. Stephen Goldfinger, who is assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco, director of inpatient psychiatry at San Francisco General Hospital, and mental health director of San ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.37.6.577

Publication date: 01 June 1986

Pages584–590

A study based on the National Institute of Mental Health's Sample Survey Program for 1970, 1975, and 1980 provides an overview of the services to adolescents supplied by the mental health sector. Data are presented mainly for nonfederal general hospitals, ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.37.6.584

Publication date: 01 June 1986

Pages591–596

Many adolescent affective disorders are rooted in biological vulnerability to stress and a predisposition to mood variations that are latent in childhood. As these stress-sensitive children encounter the normative helplessness and struggle for autonomy of ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.37.6.591

Publication date: 01 June 1986

Pages596–607

The author reviews general principles for assessing, intervening in, and treating adolescent drug abuse. Assessment involves uncovering the extent of the drug problem and the reasons behind it, including the role of family psychodynamics. In the ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.37.6.596

Publication date: 01 June 1986

Pages608–613

Attention deficit disorder may be part of a cluster of observable behaviors that reflect a dysfunctional central nervous system. The authors describe the differential diagnosis of attention deficit disorder in adolescents, a complex process in which the ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.37.6.608

Publication date: 01 June 1986

Pages613–618

The author reviews the complicated history of the concept of borderline personality disorder and associated diagnostic entities, especially as these conditions relate to adolescents. He examines current theories about etiology of borderline personality ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.37.6.613

Publication date: 01 June 1986

Pages619–623

A study of 189 consecutive psychiatric dispositions from the emergency service of an urban university hospital illustrates the difficulty that emergency psychiatric clinicians face when trying to find a receiving institution for a patient requiring ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.37.6.619

Publication date: 01 June 1986

Pages624–629

Little attention has been paid to the organizational and administrative characteristics of effective community support programs for the chronic mentally ill. The authors analyzed three successful support programs in Wisconsin that employ three different ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.37.6.624

Publication date: 01 June 1986

Page629

Due to an editing error, the letter by Sheldon Blackman, Ph.D., Robert V. Simone, C.S.W., and Donald R. Thorns, M.S., on the treatment of gamblers in the April issue (page 404) contained a reference to a paper by Russo and his colleagues. The sentence ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.37.6.629

Publication date: 01 June 1986

Pages631–633

The Med H clinic has been effective both clinically and economically in treating many types of somatizing patients and has served as a useful learning environment for psychiatric residents. The individualized treatment and supportive clinic environment ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.37.6.631

Publication date: 01 June 1986

Pages633–635

The problems identified and addressed by the TEAMS model are numerous and broad. They exist within an extremely complex systern of hospital-based health care and medical training. An early evaluation indicated that TEAMS has been successful in addressing ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.37.6.633

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