Psychiatric Services
- Volume 39
- Number 6
- June 1988
Article
Publication date: 01 June 1988
Pages615–622Throughout history, philosophers have debated the interaction of mind and body, but only in the last decade have psychiatrists and other health professionals begun to scrutinize how stressful life events may precipitate or contribute to the onset of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.39.6.615Publication date: 01 June 1988
Pages623–627A growing number of firms in private industry now sponsor or contract with groups of mental health professionals to provide employee assistance programs (EAPs). Factors that have influenced the increasing demand for EAPs include corporations' humanitarian ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.39.6.623Publication date: 01 June 1988
Pages628–631Four depressed and cognitively impaired patients with HIV-related disease had a marked therapeutic response to treatment with psychostimulants. Use of dextroamphetamine and methylphenidate brought a prompt remission of depressive and cognitive ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.39.6.628Publication date: 01 June 1988
Pages632–636Patients at risk for psychiatric hospitalization make only limited use of outpatient services, although clinical research has demonstrated that outpatient treatments and home care can be as effective as inpatient psychiatric treatment in treating certain ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.39.6.632Publication date: 01 June 1988
Pages637–642A sample of 189 psychiatrists were surveyed to determine their attitudes toward preventive activities with high-risk children in clinical practice. Respondents indicated generally positive attitudes toward the appropriateness and efficacy of such ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.39.6.637Publication date: 01 June 1988
Pages643–647Treatment of psychiatric disorders among the elderly is complicated by such factors as high incidence of medical illness and changes in drug metabolism; electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is considered a reasonable treatment alternative for the elderly for ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.39.6.643Publication date: 01 June 1988
Pages648–651For more than a decade shoplifting first offenses by people over the age of 60 have been increasing. Because elderly shoplifters are usually not motivated to steal by economic hardship, their shoplifting may be symptomatic of a psychiatric disorder. The ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.39.6.648Publication date: 01 June 1988
Pages652–657The relationship between symptoms and functioning of patients with bipolar disorder who were hospitalized for a manic episode was examined in a prospective study. At six-month follow-up, symptomatic outcome was clearly superior to functional outcome. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.39.6.652Publication date: 01 June 1988
Pages657–661In Poland primary health settings provide about 71 percent of mental health services, particularly to patients with less serious illnesses, while psychiatry provides specialized mental health care for the chronic mentally ill, the mentally retarded, and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.39.6.657Publication date: 01 June 1988
Pages666–668As illustrated by the debate about the validity and implications of the concept of negative symptoms (15), many years of research may be needed before a concept is fully defined. Bachnach (16) has reminded us that our entire conceptualization of mental ...
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