Psychiatric Services
- Volume 41
- Number 9
- September 1990
Article
Publication date: 01 September 1990
Pages971–980The development of imaging technologies for investigating the living human brain has expanded knowledge about schizophrenia and is providing dues about biological factors associated with the disorder. Drawing on these and other developments in the last ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.41.9.971Publication date: 01 September 1990
Pages980–984In 1985 Connecticut established an administrative psychiatric security review board to monitor the postverdict disposition of defendants found not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect. The five-member board may confine an insanity acquittee in a ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.41.9.980Publication date: 01 September 1990
Pages985–987Formal, written contracts between the patient and the treatment team have been shown to be useful in the inpatient management of borderline personality disorder by fostering a therapeutic alliance, containing dangerous behavior, and protecting the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.41.9.985Publication date: 01 September 1990
Pages988–992Two groups of patients with affective disorders, one group with a coexistent axis II diagnosis of borderline personality disorder and one group without, were compared to determine if the presence of borderline personality disorder affects the hospital ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.41.9.988Publication date: 01 September 1990
Pages993–998Many consumers of mental health services suffer needlessly as a result of being given the wrong medication or the wrong dosage of the right medication or from other mistakes involving medication. The author, a consumer of mental health services for many ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.41.9.993Publication date: 01 September 1990
Pages998–1001Surveys of consumer satisfaction with psychiatric services are frequently induded in program evaluations, ostensibly providing the patient's perspective. However, the consistently high levels of satisfaction reported, despite a wide variety of measures, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.41.9.998Publication date: 01 September 1990
Pages1001–1004Involuntary outpatient commitment has been used as a means of treating so-called revolving-door patients in the community and allowing them to experience the positive aspects of social and community life that stability can bring. To study the impact of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.41.9.1001Publication date: 01 September 1990
Pages1004–1008Organic mental disorder often goes undetected in geriatric patients who have coexisting psychiatric symptoms. To determine the preyaknce of organic mental disorders in geriatric patients admitted to a large metropolitan psychiatric inpatient service, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.41.9.1004Publication date: 01 September 1990
Pages1009–1012A total of 105 patients admitted to a psychiatric admissions service for adults were screenedfor pat hological gambling using the South Oaks Gambling Screen, a valid, reliable instrument for identification of this disorder. Seven of the 105 patients were ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.41.9.1009Publication date: 01 September 1990
Pages1017–1019This program for training former patients to be peer counselors for hospitalized patients has been implemented successfully in a large public sector acute psychiatric inpatient service over the past four years. Althrough initially some staff were ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.41.9.1017Publication date: 01 September 1990
Page1046The ideas column features brief notes about interesting or unusual programs, novel approaches to therapy, and useful resources in the mental health field. Contributions to Ideas are welcomed. Items, not exceeding 200 words, should be sent to the Editor, ...
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