Psychiatric Services
- Volume 41
- Number 6
- June 1990
Article
Publication date: 01 June 1990
Pages606–607Dr. Bacbrach's Introduction: In the current climate of service delivery, individual states have had to assume increasing responsibility for providing an array of services to meet the diverse needs of the chronic patient population. This issue's guest ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.41.6.606Publication date: 01 June 1990
Pages625–634The community-based mental health care programs developed by Stein, Test, and their colleagues in Madison, Wisconsin, have bad a profound impact on the delivery of mental health services to the severely mentally ill. The authors trace the development of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.41.6.625Publication date: 01 June 1990
Pages634–641Experimental studies of assertive community treatment programs based on the Training in Community Living model are reviewed. In most of the programs studied, interdisciplinary treatment teams met with patients in the community, taught them to take care of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.41.6.634Publication date: 01 June 1990
Pages642–647Evaluation of assertive community treatment programs has demonstrated that they are highly effective in reducing the need for psychiatric hospitalization of chronic mentally ill patients. However, the programs also tend to cost more than traditional ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.41.6.642Publication date: 01 June 1990
Pages647–649Twenty-eight severely mentally ill adults in an inner-city area of Atlanta participated in a study to determine if intensive outreach by case managers would result in decreased use of mental hospitals and improved community living. The experimental group ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.41.6.647Publication date: 01 June 1990
Pages649–651It is difficult to make a summary statement about a diverse group of papers. However, some of the papers tangentially reflect a current phenomenon that deserves attention: a growing tendency to view case management as the magical solution to the problems ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.41.6.649Publication date: 01 June 1990
Pages652–657Some chronic mentally ill populations are at high risk for infection with human immunodeficiency virus. The authors argue that stereotypes of the mentally ill as asexual or neutered have bad dangerous consequences, namely the absence of sex education and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.41.6.652Publication date: 01 June 1990
Pages657–662Methodological and practical difficulties have limited the growth of knowledge about outcome of psychiatric hospital treatment. The authors report on outcome at hospital discharge for 103 long-term and 93 short-term patients treated at the C. F. Menninger ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.41.6.657Publication date: 01 June 1990
Pages663–665A sample of 309 police officers in Cincinnati and Hamilton County, Ohio, were interviewed about their contacts with mentally ill individuals and about their need for various kinds of information and assistance from the mental health system. During a one-...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.41.6.663Publication date: 01 June 1990
Pages674–676Several features in this sample of hospitalized homeless mentally ill patients deserve special attention: the relatively low proportion with major mental illness, a marked tendency to comply with treatment recommendations, and a lack of correspondence ...
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