Psychiatric Services
- Volume 39
- Number 3
- March 1988
Article
Publication date: 01 March 1988
Pages257–259Dr. Eth's Introduction: Ethical problems abound in the practice of geriatric psychiatry, in part as a consequence of a vulnerable patient population commonly presenting with cognitive impairment. The particular concern for preserving a patient's moral ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.39.3.257Publication date: 01 March 1988
Pages263–271This paper begins a two-part series on current psychiatric aspects of epilepsy. Part I focuses on the current classification of epileptic seizures; the possible relationships of epilepsy, especially temporal lobe epilepsy, with psychopathology; and the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.39.3.263Publication date: 01 March 1988
Pages272–276The outcomes of 82 patients in a rehabilitation-oriented case management program six months and two years after they were discharged from an inpatient setting to join the program were compared with those of 82 matched control patients who had been ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.39.3.272Publication date: 01 March 1988
Pages277–282A psychoeducation program in an acute care inpatient psychiatric setting involves schizophrenic patients and their families in a range of educational interventions that are responsive to their particular strengths and vulnerabiities. Patients receive one-...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.39.3.277Publication date: 01 March 1988
Pages282–286Two groups of schizophrenic patients were compared to determine the effects of educating patients about schizophrenia and its treatment. One group completed a three-week educational program while the other was involved in the usual ward activities. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.39.3.282Publication date: 01 March 1988
Pages287–291The Cambridge-Somerville unit of the Massachusetts state hospital system, which was studied by the author in 1977, was resurveyed to examine changes in the clinical characteristics of the patient population between 1977 and 1987. Although the number of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.39.3.287Publication date: 01 March 1988
Pages291–295An inpatient psychiatric unit at a Veterans Administration Medical Center offers regularly scheduled psychiatric respite care, an intervention intended to reduce recidivism among chronic patients who live with a family member and to support the family in ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.39.3.291Publication date: 01 March 1988
Pages295–299Patients in a long-term follow-up study who had made a serious suicide threat or attempt before admission were further studied to determine if there were characteristics that discriminated between those who ultimately committed suicide and those who did ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.39.3.295Prevalence of a History of Sexual Abuse Among Female Psychiatric Patients in a State Hospital System
Publication date: 01 March 1988
Pages300–304Fifty-one percent of a sample of 105 female state hospital patients were found to have been sexually abused as children or adolescents. In the majority of cases, hospital staff were unaware that the patients had histories of sexual abuse, and only 20 ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.39.3.300Publication date: 01 March 1988
Pages304–309To assess the prevalence of and risk factors for depression in an older population, the Multilevel Assessment Instrument (MAI) and the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale (CES-D) were administered to 176 elderly residents of a public ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.39.3.304Publication date: 01 March 1988
Page309The article entitled "Capitation Financing for the Chronic Mentally Ill: A Case Management Approach" by Maxine Harris, Ph.D., and Helen C. Bergman, A.C.S.W., in the January issue (pages 68-72) contained an incorrect reference citation. Reference 7 should ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.39.3.309