Psychiatric Services
- Volume 39
- Number 1
- January 1988
Article
Publication date: 01 January 1988
Pages31–39A 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.39.1.31Publication date: 01 January 1988
Pages40–45In 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.39.1.40Publication date: 01 January 1988
Pages46–51To 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.39.1.46Publication date: 01 January 1988
Pages52–57Within 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.39.1.52Publication date: 01 January 1988
Pages58–62A 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.39.1.58Publication date: 01 January 1988
Pages63–68As 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.39.1.63Publication date: 01 January 1988
Pages68–72The 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.39.1.68Publication date: 01 January 1988
Pages73–77The 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 ...
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