Psychiatric Services
- Volume 40
- Number 7
- July 1989
Article
Publication date: 01 July 1989
Pages681–683Dr. Sharfstein's Introduction: Public policy should be guided by sound data emerging from quality research. A shift in the financing of medical and psychiatric care toward capitation models representsa major change, and the Philadelphia capitation ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.40.7.681Publication date: 01 July 1989
Pages691–693Dr. Kroll, this month's guest expert , is associate professor of psychiatry at the University of Minnesota Medical School in Minnesota . He is also psychiatric consultant to the Southeast Asian refugee program at the Community-University Health Care ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.40.7.691Publication date: 01 July 1989
Pages699–707A review of the literature of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) for the last four years shows parsimonious progress in research and on other fronts. Prospective studies are steadily replacing retrospective investigations, and the assessment ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.40.7.699Publication date: 01 July 1989
Pages708–712In two clinics in military general hospitals, the charts of all children with a presumptive diagnosis of attention deficit disorder who were prescribed psychostimulants (N=68) were audited to assess the quality of the primary physicians' evaluation and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.40.7.708Publication date: 01 July 1989
Pages712–718Combining pharmacotherapy and psychotherapy in the treatment of borderline personality disorder is increasingly common, yet the experiences of clinicians who use the two modalities have not been studied . Forty psychotherapists were surveyed about their ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.40.7.712Publication date: 01 July 1989
Pages718–723A total of 260 family members responded to a survey seeking information about their mentally ill relatives' contacts with the criminal justice system. Reports by family members indicated that the mentally ill relatives were mainly men in their early ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.40.7.718Publication date: 01 July 1989
Pages724–731The functioning of 58 adolescent psychiatric patients at hospital admission , discharge, and one-and-a-half-year follow-up was examined in relation to six predictor variables: level of precipitating stress, primary process thinking on the Rorschach test, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.40.7.724Publication date: 01 July 1989
Pages732–736The epidemic of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) requires mental health clinicians to make many decisions that present legal dilemmas, yet few clear rules of law exist that address HIV antibody testing, confidentiality of information about patients' HIV ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.40.7.732Publication date: 01 July 1989
Pages736–740In October 1987, Joyce Brown became the first homeless person removed from New York City's streets and hospitalized under a city initiative that authorized evaluation of "gravely disabled" homeless pensons for admission to inpatient psychiatric treatment. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.40.7.736Publication date: 01 July 1989
Pages745–747The model of consultation in occupational psychiatry presented in this paper may contribute significantly to an improved dialogue between psychiatry and the world of work. Such a dialogue will ultimately benefit both employees and employers through ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.40.7.745Publication date: 01 July 1989
Pages751–753Although case management has gained increased popularity as a strategy for providing services to chronic mentally disabled persons, the incorporation of money management into such client planning adds a critical element of care. The Skid Row Mental Health ...
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