Psychiatric Services
- Volume 40
- Number 5
- May 1989
Article
Publication date: 01 May 1989
Pages468–470This month's guest expert is assistant professor of psychiatry at University of Illinois at Chicago and chief of the inpatient unit at the University of illinois Hospital in Chicago.
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.40.5.468Publication date: 01 May 1989
Page470In paper entitled "Use of Antidepressants in Attempted Suicide" by Harold H. Harsch, M.D., and Rober E. Holt, M.D., in the September 1988 issue (pages 990-992), the years in which the data were collected were incorrectly stated. The data were collected ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.40.5.470Publication date: 01 May 1989
Pages481–491Mentally ill persons who have been charged with crimes present difficult dilemmas for correctional authorities and mental health system administrators. The authors examine the scope of the problem, the legal issues and treatment needs of this population ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.40.5.481Publication date: 01 May 1989
Pages491–496Records of all inmates committed to a state forensic hospital in fiscal year 1982 (N=472) were studied to examine the inmates' hospital utilization between September 1977 and April 1984 and the reasons for their admissions. Medication refusal, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.40.5.491Publication date: 01 May 1989
Pages497–502After a private general hospital announced plans to ban smoking inside the hospital, the authors initiated a study on the psychiatric units to identify anticipated and actual patient-related problems associated with the ban and to assess staff and patient ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.40.5.497Publication date: 01 May 1989
Pages502–506The epidemiologic, neuropsychiatric, and medical data on AIDS and HIV infection that are relevant to state psychiatric facilities are reviewed. The epidemiologic data suggest that a larger than expected number of AIDS patients may be seen in these ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.40.5.502Publication date: 01 May 1989
Pages507–510House staff physicians and nurses at a major New York City teaching hospital completed a 79-item questionnaire designed to assess AIDS anxiety, fear of contagion, and personal attitudes about homosexuality. Sixty-three percent of respondents were ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.40.5.507Publication date: 01 May 1989
Pages511–514The authors describe clinical and legal dilemmas faced by staff involved in providing inpatient psychiatric treatment to two HIV carriers who continued to practice high-risk behaviors after learning of their HIV infection. Staff were unsure of their ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.40.5.511Publication date: 01 May 1989
Pages515–519Empirical studies supporting the efficacy of specific techniques and practices in the inpatient treatment of alcoholism are reviewed. The studies confirm the value of an intensive, group-oriented, multimodal treatment approach. Specific features that have ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.40.5.515Publication date: 01 May 1989
Pages520–524Therapeutic holding is a treatment technique in which a violent patient is physically contained by people rather than by mechanical or chemical restraints or seclusion. Episodes of therapeutic bolding that took place on an inpatient adolescent psychiatric ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.40.5.520Publication date: 01 May 1989
Pages529–531The security safeguards developed to ensure that forensic patients do not pose a threat to community residents appear to be effective. In more than 11,000 excursions made by patients into the city over a 24-month period, on only one occasion was a crime ...
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