Psychiatric Services
- Volume 41
- Number 11
- November 1990
Article
Publication date: 01 November 1990
Pages1203–1211Although effective treatment for schizophrenia is available, patients' compliance with treatment prescriptions is notoriously poor. The authors reframe compliance as a collaborative relationship in which both the patient and practitioner assume ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.41.11.1203Publication date: 01 November 1990
Pages1212–1216In 1985 the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation implemented the Program on Chronic Mental illness, which provides grants and assistance to nine cities across the country in their efforts to improve services to persons with chronic mental illness. A basic ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.41.11.1212Publication date: 01 November 1990
Pages1217–1221The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation chose the University of Maryland Mental Health Policy Studies Program to conduct an independent national evaluation of its Program on Chronic Mental illness, a large-scale demonstration in which nine cities across the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.41.11.1217Publication date: 01 November 1990
Pages1222–1230The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Program on Chronic Mental Illness provides support for broad change in the organization, financing, and delivery of services in public systems of care for chronic mentally ill persons. To address the lack of an ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.41.11.1222Publication date: 01 November 1990
Pages1230–1233A pilot one-month follow-up of 17 inpatients diagnosed with both psychiatric and substance abuse disorders showed that 12 patients reported abstinence and five had relapsed. Significant associations were found between reported abstinence and a diagnosis ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.41.11.1230Publication date: 01 November 1990
Pages1233–1237Psychotic denial of pregnancy in chronic mentally ill women may place the women and their fetuses at high risk of postpartum emotional disturbance, precipitous or unassisted delivery, fetal abuse, and neonaticide. Psychotic denial of pregnancy is ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.41.11.1233Publication date: 01 November 1990
Pages1238–1241Sexual side effects of antipsychotic medications, which include disturbances of erection and ejaculation, changes in libido, and priapism in men and decreased libido, orgasmic dysfunction, and menstrual irregularities in women, are estimated to occur in ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.41.11.1238Publication date: 01 November 1990
Pages1242–1245One way in which psychiatrists deal with the problem of a patient who does not follow treatment recommendations is to issue an ultimatum, refusing treatment unless the patient abides by the doctor's treatment plan. The author examines a series of cases to ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.41.11.1242Publication date: 01 November 1990
Pages1245–1248During the past 20 years, sheltered care homes have become the primary supervised community residence for mentally ill patients outside of licensed hospitals. To determine factors associated with sheltered care operators' remaining in business, follow-up ...
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