Psychiatric Services
- Volume 39
- Number 2
- February 1988
Article
Publication date: 01 February 1988
Pages119–124The custodial approach to care found in many state hospitals is an added burden for geriatric patients. Their medical and psychiatric problems are complex, and their susceptibility to iatrogenic complications is greater than that of the general patient ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.39.2.119Publication date: 01 February 1988
Pages151–158The chances for successful management of three groups of mentally ill offenders—insanity acquittees, sexual offenders, and offenders with alcohol problems—can be maximized by using specific diagnostic and therapeutic techniques for each group. The ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.39.2.151Publication date: 01 February 1988
Pages159–166Standardized psychological assessment of 48 close relatives of patients hospitalized for burns revealed that the relatives experienced high levels of distress diring the acute phase of the patient's hospitalization. At six-month follow-up, the relatives' ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.39.2.159Publication date: 01 February 1988
Pages167–172Short-term general hospitals account for most psychiatric hospitalizations of children, but relatively little research has examined the psychiatric care of children at these facilities. This study compared the characteristics of and use of hospital ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.39.2.167Publication date: 01 February 1988
Pages173–176Patients with a psychiatric disorder are known to make greater use of medical resources than patients without a psychiatric condition, but the impact of highly prevalent psychiatric illnesses, such as depression, on use of medical resources has not been ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.39.2.173Publication date: 01 February 1988
Pages177–180The time therapy technique is a unique approach to group therapy in which the abstract concept of time is represented spatially by a "floor calendar" through which patients move as they discuss past and future events. The technique enables the therapist ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.39.2.177Publication date: 01 February 1988
Pages181–185As a result of deinstitutionalization, acute care beds in state hospitals have become blocked by patients who lack access to appropriate community placements but who have derived maximum benefit from hospital care. To help plan community services for ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.39.2.181Publication date: 01 February 1988
Pages186–189After repeal of a Wisconsin statute permitting hospitalization of defendants convicted of sexual crimes, the authors noted an increase in the percentage of sex offenders among persons hospitalized after being found not guilty by reason of insanity. They ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.39.2.186Publication date: 01 February 1988
Pages190–194For the last 20 years in Sweden, there has been a trend to integrate psychiatry with general medical services. However, mental hospitals remain the dominant resource for psychiatric care, with psychiatric units in general hospitals providing less than 20 ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.39.2.190Publication date: 01 February 1988
Pages197–200Findings reveal that although most patients do not look forward to the resident rotations, the majority adjust with minimal complications. There is, however, a subgroup who experience distress. For these patients, the general agreement between their ...
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