Capitation as a method of health care reimbursement has grown dramatically during the past two decades and may have a marked impact on funding for mental health services in coming years. The author defines capitation within the context of various health ...

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Guidelines for Short-Term Inpatient Psychotherapy

Publication date: 01 January 1987

Pages38–43

The authors propose guidlines for conducting psychotherapy in short-term general hospitals. They divide short-term psychiatric hospitalization into three phases, each of which presents different therapeutic tasks and calls for different therapeutic ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.38.1.38

The Prosecution of Psychiatric Patients for Assaults on Staff: A Preliminary Empirical Study

Publication date: 01 January 1987

Pages44–49

A survey of five public hospitals yielded nine cases in which staff pressed charges against patients who assaulted them. Examining the effects of prosecution on the patients, the legal system, and the staff, the authors found that two patients benefited, ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.38.1.44

Factors Affecting the Decision to Prosecute Mental Patients for Criminal Behavior

Publication date: 01 January 1987

Pages50–55

Several Authors have arged that under certain circumstances it is both necessary and therapeutic to bring criminal charges against psychiatric patients who have committed assaults or manifested other criminal behavior. Others have arged that prosecution ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.38.1.50

Association Between Type of Medication Instruction and Patients' Knowledge, Side Effects, and Compliance

Publication date: 01 January 1987

Pages55–60

The authors measured knowledge about medication and its side effects, impact of side effects, and compliance in 30 chronic outpatients before and after they participated in two instruction sessions about their medication held one month apart. Instruction ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.38.1.55

Special Note to H&CP Contributors

Publication date: 01 January 1987

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Social Network Density and Rehospitalization Among Young Adult Patients

Publication date: 01 January 1987

Pages61–65

The authors interviewed 30 patients under age 40 who had been hospitalized repeatedly to determine the relationship between social network density, or the extent to which network members know one another, and rehospitalization. They found that moderate ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.38.1.61

Overcoming Institutional and Community Resistance to a Tardive Dyskinesia Management Program

Publication date: 01 January 1987

Pages65–68

A growing body of research has examined psychiatry's previously hesitant response to the problem of tardive dyskinesia, but little has been said about resistance among institutions and communities to managing tardive dyskinesia. This paper describes how ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.38.1.65

Changing Mental Health Services in Madrid: International Issues

Publication date: 01 January 1987

Pages68–72

With the backing of a socialist government that came to power in 1982, mental health services in Spain are shifting away from institutional and custodial care toward community-based services. Provincial governments now control most mental health programs ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.38.1.68