Psychiatric Services
- Volume 38
- Number 7
- July 1987
Article
Publication date: 01 July 1987
Pages725–728The author assesses psychiatry's accomplishments during the past quarter century and the challenges the profession faces in a changing political, economic, and medical environment. He believes that several of the policy decisions of the early 1960s, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.38.7.725Publication date: 01 July 1987
Pages729–734To measure how much federally funded community mental health centers increased the quantity and range of mental health services, 63 catcbment areas in which CMHCs began to receive federal funding in 1974-75 were matched individually with catchment areas ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.38.7.729Publication date: 01 July 1987
Pages735–740An innovative treatment program was established through which VA outpatient mental health care was decentralized via integration with the CMHC system in northern Vermont. A long-term follow-up study evaluated the success of Veterans' Integrated Community ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.38.7.735Publication date: 01 July 1987
Pages741–745Chronic psychiatric patients often fail to receive adequate general medical care. In a study of 42 outpatients in a psychosocial rehabilitation program, 93 percent were found to have at least one problem warranting assessment, treatment, or follow-up. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.38.7.741Publication date: 01 July 1987
Pages745–749A study of a group of chronic mentally ill patients from an intensive community support program revealed that 53 percent of the subjects had undiagnosed medical problems and 36 percent had known medical problems requiring initiation of or a change in ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.38.7.745Publication date: 01 July 1987
Pages750–754The closing of 42 board-and-care homes in San Francisco since 1977 has contributed to a critical shortage in the city's community housing for the mentally ill. A task force convened in 1985 to research the causes of the growing housing crisis and seek ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.38.7.750Publication date: 01 July 1987
Pages755–758Despite its limited resources, Cuba has developed an integrated mental health system that emphasizes prevention and community care. It consists of three distinct organizations: the Committee for the Defense of the Revolution, one of many mass community ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.38.7.755Publication date: 01 July 1987
Pages758–763Hospital boards and medical staffs are faced with difficult decisions about whether nonphysician mental health professionals should be given admitting privileges to psychiatric hospitals or treatment units. The authors describe the special medical ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.38.7.758Publication date: 01 July 1987
Pages764–768A lack of federal planning and foresight and an uneven and poorly coordinated network of state services have resulted in fragmented mental health care for the large number of Southeast Asian and other refugees who have entered the United States since ...
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