Psychiatric Services
- Volume 42
- Number 11
- November 1991
Article
Publication date: 01 November 1991
Pages1103–1104Foreword from Dr. Perry: Many of us have provided support over the years to patients who continue to have mild symptoms that seem related to character problems and life's woes. By keeping the smoldering symptoms from bursting into flame, we think we're ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.42.11.1103Publication date: 01 November 1991
Pages1111–1115About 1,500 agencies responded to a nationwide survey of community residential programs affiliated with state departments of mental health that was conducted in 1986-87. The agencies served more than 59,000 individuals who had psychiatric disabilities in ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.42.11.1111Publication date: 01 November 1991
Pages1116–1119Survey data were used to analyze state government efforts to promote supported housing for persons with psychiatric disabilities in five states—Ohio, Oregon, Rhode Island, Washington, and Wisconsin. States worked to increase mental health service ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.42.11.1116Publication date: 01 November 1991
Pages1120–1124Data from three surveys of California sheltered care residents and facilities were used to determine which of three models best describes the use of sheltered care by residents and the provision of services to residents between 1973 and 1983. The ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.42.11.1120Publication date: 01 November 1991
Pages1125–1131Two hundred and thirty-four members of a 1973 sample of shelterd care residents, three-fourths of whom had schizophrenic disorders, were followed up between 1983 and 1985 to examine the role of supportive and of transitional, high-expectation sheltered ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.42.11.1125Publication date: 01 November 1991
Pages1132–1137The complexity of Supplemental Security Income (SSI) regulations and procedures allegedly inhibits eligible persons with serious mental illness from obtaining and retaining support. This study examined factors affecting continued 551 support among 393 ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.42.11.1132Publication date: 01 November 1991
Pages1138–1143The social acceptance expressed by 234 former mental patients and by the general public toward persons with serious mental illness was compared. Factors that may affect social acceptance of such persons, including personal characteristics and experiences ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.42.11.1138Publication date: 01 November 1991
Pages1144–1150Data from 12 families of chronic mentally ill young adults who were living in a supportive residential facility were used to compare the effects on family functioning of a multiple-family psychoeducational group and a multiple-family support group. The ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.42.11.1144Publication date: 01 November 1991
Pages1150–1153As part of state-supported interventions to reduce risk of rehospitalization, seriously disabled psychiatric patients who had been involuntarily hospitalized twice in the previous three years were assigned to receive supported housing services in an ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.42.11.1150Publication date: 01 November 1991
Pages1154–1159The prevailing approach to rehabilitation in residential care emphasizes goal attainment. This approach often produces considerable stress for residents, most of whom have schizophrenia. Based on the view that low-demand environments, incorporating ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.42.11.1154Publication date: 01 November 1991
Pages1177-a–1177The description of the Thresholds Bridge Program for the Hearing Impaired, a 1991 Significant Achievement Award winner, pp. 1057-1058 of the October 1991 issue, included an incorrect telephone number for voice communication. The correct number is 312-989-...
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