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Psychiatric Services

  • Volume 39
  • Number 1
  • January 1988

Article

Publication date: 01 January 1988

Pages31–39

A substantial body of research with both animals and humans demonstrates that pharmacologic modulation of three neurotransmitter systems (the GABAergic, the noradrenergic, and the serotonergic) and electrical stimulation of regions of the brain produce ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.39.1.31

Publication date: 01 January 1988

Pages40–45

In a one-year study of 49 homeless chronic mentally ill patients, the subjects, selected at admission for inpatient treatment, were randomly assigned to one of two groups. One group was placed in an experimental residential treatment program following ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.39.1.40

Publication date: 01 January 1988

Pages46–51

To illuminate the role of criminal activity among the homeless, particularly the homeless mentally ill, the author compared 634 arrests of homeless persons with 50,524 arrests in the general population that were made in Baltimore in 1983. Significant ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.39.1.46

Publication date: 01 January 1988

Pages52–57

Within a statewide random sample of 611 young adult patients who received public inpatient, outpatient, and community residential care, 38 percent were found to have been arrested at least once in their adult lifetimes. Thirty-five percent had been ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.39.1.52

Publication date: 01 January 1988

Pages58–62

A random sample of 34 families from the general population were studied over a 15-month period to determine their risk for depression over time. Adults and children in the families were interviewed three times during the 15-month period. Risk for ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.39.1.58

Publication date: 01 January 1988

Pages63–68

As part of a project to better serve the needs of patients' families, a New York state psychiatric facility surveyed 350 inpatient and outpatient staff and 250 family members about their attitudes toward each other and about the role of families in the ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.39.1.63

Publication date: 01 January 1988

Pages68–72

The method chosen for financing mental health care has profound implications for how that care will be delivered. Fee-for-service methods of reimbursement impede the implementation of certain essential program components. Capitation financing, in contrast,...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.39.1.68

Publication date: 01 January 1988

Pages73–77

The synthetic hormone diethylstilbestrol (DES) was widely prescribed between 1943 and 1971 to minimize pregnancy complications. It has caused serious physical and psychological damage to the women who took it and to their offspring. DES-exposed mothers ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.39.1.73

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