Psychiatric Services
- Volume 37
- Number 7
- July 1986
Article
Publication date: 01 July 1986
Pages685–692Although the diagnosis of borderline personality disorder has reasonable interrater and test-retest reliability, its discriminative validity is poor. The authors review studies indicating that the patient group subsumed by the borderline category actually ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.37.7.685Publication date: 01 July 1986
Pages692–697Patients with borderline personality disorder typically are hospitalized in the midst of a crisis and in a state of acute regression. After a few days in which the patient is provided with containment and support, the therapist can assess whether the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.37.7.692Publication date: 01 July 1986
Pages697–701The outcome of outpatient treatment of 497 children and 396 adults at a large community mental health and mental retardation center was associated with cost of services and with clients' number of sessions, length of stay, and density of treatment. The ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.37.7.697Publication date: 01 July 1986
Pages702–707A study of public spending for mental retardation and developmental disabilities infiscal years 1977 through 1984 reveals that combined state and federal government spending grew by 23 percent despite diminished growth in federal spending after passage of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.37.7.702Publication date: 01 July 1986
Pages708–712Beliefs that patients fall between the cracks in the transition from hospital to community services, that the aftercare population is shut out of community mental health agencies, and that services are duplicated to a high degree continue to be widely ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.37.7.708Publication date: 01 July 1986
Pages712–719The social problem of homelessness is of increasing concern to mental health professionals. In a large-scale study of homelessness in Ohio, data were collected in face-to-face interviews with 979 homeless people in 19 counties. The median length of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.37.7.712Publication date: 01 July 1986
Pages720–724In a study of 127 long-term psychiatric hospital patients perceived as difficult to treat, investigators used hierarchical grouping analysis to differentiate ten profile groups of patients. The groups are based on four dimensions or clusters of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.37.7.720Publication date: 01 July 1986
Pages725–731Psychiatrists have been held liable for violent acts committed by their patients when more than an error in professional judgment could be demonstrated. The authors describe several recent court cases in which judges have ignored or distorted acceptable ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.37.7.725Publication date: 01 July 1986
Pages731–733Despite dramatic expansion of telephone counseling services during the last three decades and widespread belief in their preventive and therapeutic value, empirical evidence of their effectiveness is limited, partly because of methodological and practical ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.37.7.731Publication date: 01 July 1986
Pages736–737The majority of the operators would benefit from nutrition education aimed at improving their planning and purchasing skills to meet the nutritional needs of clients. Such training should attempt to make use of the operators' strengths and to generate ...
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