Psychiatric Services
- Volume 40
- Number 8
- August 1989
Article
Publication date: 01 August 1989
Pages785–786Dr. 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.40.8.785Publication date: 01 August 1989
Pages799–804Actual 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.40.8.799Publication date: 01 August 1989
Pages805–808In 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.40.8.805Publication date: 01 August 1989
Pages809–814The 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.40.8.809Publication date: 01 August 1989
Pages815–819The 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.40.8.815Publication date: 01 August 1989
Pages820–823A 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.40.8.820Publication date: 01 August 1989
Pages824–830The 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.40.8.824Publication date: 01 August 1989
Pages831–835Family 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.40.8.831Publication date: 01 August 1989
Page835In 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.40.8.835Publication date: 01 August 1989
Pages836–840For 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.40.8.836Publication date: 01 August 1989
Pages845–847Weapon 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.40.8.845Publication date: 01 August 1989
Pages849–851The 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.40.8.849Publication date: 01 August 1989
Pages853–855The 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 ...
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