Psychiatric Services
- Volume 41
- Number 7
- July 1990
Article
Publication date: 01 July 1990
Pages722–724Thirteen workgroups and their advisers bear the major responsibiity for developing the fourth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV) by 1993. A work group has been appointed for each major category of disorders and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.41.7.722Publication date: 01 July 1990
Pages749–755Successful involuntary psychiatric outpatient treatment requires identifying patients who are suited to such treatment and ensuring that the service system is able to deliver the treatment. Based on his clinical experience, the author has developed ten ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.41.7.749Publication date: 01 July 1990
Pages756–760A federal law passed in 1986 required states to develop service plans incorporating each state's own definition of chronic mental illness. This study considered whether the state definitions can be used to identify comparable populations of chronic ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.41.7.756Publication date: 01 July 1990
Pages761–770Data from the Epidemiologic Catchment Area survey were used to examine the relationship between violence and psychiatric disorders among adults living in the community. Psychiatric assessment of survey respondents was based on the Diagnostic Interview ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.41.7.761Publication date: 01 July 1990
Pages771–775In an effort to improve the prediction of violence among psychiatric inpatients, the authors retrospectively studied 25 patients who were violent and 34 who were not violent after admission to a psychiatric emergency ward in Norway. The only demographic ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.41.7.771Publication date: 01 July 1990
Pages776–780Data gathered from the medical record and in interviews with staff and patients in an inpatient psychiatric setting at a Veterans Affairs medical center were used to examine events preceding 73 episodes in which patients were placed in four-point ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.41.7.776Publication date: 01 July 1990
Pages780–785Although short-term hospitalization has been shown to be effective in helping severely impaired psychiatric patients improve, such improvement is for some only temporary. Young, treatment-refractory patients who have failed to respond to previous brief ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.41.7.780Publication date: 01 July 1990
Pages786–790To assess the prevalence of physical disorders among outpatients treated in Colorado's public mental health system, a total of 175 patients from two community mental health centers received a comprehensive medical screening that included a standard ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.41.7.786Publication date: 01 July 1990
Pages790–794Consumer preference surveys can provide valuable information on which to base the planning and development of housing for groups with special needs. The authors describe a survey that explored the housing histories, problems, needs, and preferences of a ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.41.7.790Publication date: 01 July 1990
Pages795–797The results of this study indicate that several issues within the public mental health system need to be addressed. First, screening for substance abuse should be conducted for all hospital admissions, with particular attention paid to adult forensic and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.41.7.795Publication date: 01 July 1990
Pages808-a–808In the table accompanying the paper entitled "Discharge and Retention of Psychogeriatric Long-Stay Patients in a State Mental Hospital" by Gary S. Moak, M.D., in the April 1990 issue (pages 445-447), the headings of the second and third columns were ...
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