Psychiatric Services
- Volume 38
- Number 1
- January 1987
Article
Publication date: 01 January 1987
Pages31–38Capitation 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 ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.38.1.31Publication date: 01 January 1987
Pages38–43The 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.38.1.38Publication date: 01 January 1987
Pages44–49A 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.38.1.44Publication date: 01 January 1987
Pages50–55Several 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.38.1.50Publication date: 01 January 1987
Pages55–60The 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.38.1.55Publication date: 01 January 1987
Pages61–65The 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.38.1.61Publication date: 01 January 1987
Pages65–68A 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.38.1.65Publication date: 01 January 1987
Pages68–72With 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 ...
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