Psychiatric Services
- Volume 39
- Number 8
- August 1988
Article
Publication date: 01 August 1988
Pages830–831Thyroid function tests are useful adjuncts in the evaluation of psychiatric symptoms, but they cannot be properly interpreted without a basic understanding of test methodology and thyroid physiology. In clinical practice, psychiatrists may wish to obtain ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.39.8.830Publication date: 01 August 1988
Pages835–841The use of individual, family, and group psychotherapy at a national sample of state and county mental hospitals, private psychiatric hospitals, and psychiatric services in nonfederal general hospitals in 1975 and in 1980 or 1981 was studied. Patients ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.39.8.835Publication date: 01 August 1988
Pages842–851A number of researchers, dissatisfied with traditional models of affective illness, have developed multidimensional systems models that more accurately reflect how genetic, biological, and social factors may interact to increase vulnerability or ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.39.8.842Publication date: 01 August 1988
Pages851–855The Rivers v. Katz decision substituted judicial review for administrative review of requests for involuntary medication of patients in New York State mental hospitals. This change, prompted by concern for the rights of involuntarily committed patients, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.39.8.851Publication date: 01 August 1988
Page855In the News & Notes section of the July issue, the last line was dropped from the article about the congressional report criticizing the funding cutbacks at the National Institute of Mental Health. The last sentence (on page 796) should have said that the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.39.8.855Publication date: 01 August 1988
Pages856–861Psychiatric consultants are increasingly asked to evaluate the competency of medically ill patients, but the absence of accepted guidelines and gaps in the law can make their task difficult. A model procedure for evaluating competency developed by the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.39.8.856Publication date: 01 August 1988
Pages862–866Records of inpatients and outpatients first admitted to a community mental health center (CMHC) in 1975 or 1983 were studied to determine the patients' arrest rates and to note the factors associated with incidence of arrest one to nine years after ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.39.8.862Publication date: 01 August 1988
Pages867–869Treatment interventions are increasingly needed for patients with violent behavior, who make up a growing proportion of the population in public mental hospitals. The literature suggests that these patients repeatedly use violent behavior to obtain their ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.39.8.867Publication date: 01 August 1988
Pages870–873As an alternative to the confusing patchwork that often characterizes child and adolescent mental health care, the mental health program of a children's social welfare agency offers a continuum of inpatient and outpatient services on one campus. The ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.39.8.870Publication date: 01 August 1988
Pages874–879Schizophrenic patients typically have poor grooming and self-care skills, which hinder their social relationships and their chances of successful adaptation in the community. A practical and inexpensive program for teaching grooming skills to hospitalized ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.39.8.874Publication date: 01 August 1988
Pages879–883As psychiatrists become more active in the care of the chronic mentally ill, they are taking a greater role in relation to the entitlement programs of Social Security Disability Insurance and Supplemental Security Income. In a review of the application ...
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