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Psychiatric Services

  • Volume 40
  • Number 8
  • August 1989

Article

Publication date: 01 August 1989

Pages785–786

Dr. Eth's Introduction: Homelessness has burst into the American consciousness, and with it recognition of the many homeless persons who are mentally ill. Less conspicuous, but no less important, are the daily problems psychiatrists face in evaluating the ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.40.8.785

Publication date: 01 August 1989

Pages799–804

Actual expenditures for local mental health services in California from 1959 to 1989 are analyzed to determine trends in state funding of services. As the locus of authority for mental health services shifted from state to county governments, the relative ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.40.8.799

Publication date: 01 August 1989

Pages805–808

In attempts to contain mental health costs, administrators are increasingly using incentives, competition, and accounting strategies and are creating more complicated financing systems. Yet the costs of these strategies and their impacts on the efficacy ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.40.8.805

Publication date: 01 August 1989

Pages809–814

The relationship between violent behavior and length of hospitalization was studied in a retrospective chart review of 253 patients admitted to a university-based acute inpatient unit. Violent behavior was defined as physical attacks on persons or fear-...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.40.8.809

Publication date: 01 August 1989

Pages815–819

The influence of the diagnostic labels "schizophrenia" and "borderline personality disorder" on the expressed empathy of psychiatric nursing staff was assessed by examining nurses' written responses to a series of hypothetical patient statements. ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.40.8.815

Publication date: 01 August 1989

Pages820–823

A three-month cohort of admissions (N=300) to an acute psychiatric inpatient unit of a county general hospital was studied to identify factors that differentiate patients with multiple admissions over a 12-month period from those with only a single ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.40.8.820

Publication date: 01 August 1989

Pages824–830

The influence of environmental conditions on the community adjustment of chronic schizophrenic patients who live in boarding homes and other residential facilities was studied using data from medical records and interviews with patients. Seventyeight ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.40.8.824

Publication date: 01 August 1989

Pages831–835

Family members of seriously mentally ill persons were interviewed to determine their satisfaction with services received through a countywide service system based on the community support program (CSP) model developed by the National Institute of Mental ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.40.8.831

Publication date: 01 August 1989

Page835

In the paper entitled "Psychiatric Emergency Room Dispositions of HMO Enrollees" by Mark Olfson, M.D., in the June 1989 issue (pages 639-641), the numbers of nonwhite patients who were members of Blue Cross/Blue Shield (BC/BS) and who were Connecticut ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.40.8.835

Publication date: 01 August 1989

Pages836–840

For some time patients with the dual diagnosis of mental retardation and mental illness have been recognized as a distinct patient population, but development of programs meeting their special needs is slow. In October 1986 a Massachusetts state ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.40.8.836

Publication date: 01 August 1989

Pages845–847

Weapon carrying is not a rare event among patients seen in psychiatric emergency services, and apparently no characteristics can effectively predict which patients carry weapons. Screening for weapons would make psychiatric services sections safer for ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.40.8.845

Publication date: 01 August 1989

Pages849–851

The formulation of a depressive syndrome in the context of schizophrenia represents a microcosm of frontier areas in psychiatry: the psychological rehabilitation of psychotic patients, the differentiation between schizophrenic and mood disorders, and the ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.40.8.849

Publication date: 01 August 1989

Pages853–855

The psychiatric literature gives evidence supporting the use of volunteers in caring for chronic psychiatric patients in the community. Thorough training of volunteers can be expected to enhance the quality of care they provide and help them to maintain ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.40.8.853

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