Psychiatric Services
- Volume 42
- Number 12
- December 1991
Article
Publication date: 01 December 1991
Pages1203–1206The studies we reviewed suggest that youths treated in hospital-based settings who have a history of severely aggressive-destructive behavior and whose parents abuse substances are more likely than their peers who were treated but do not have these ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.42.12.1203Publication date: 01 December 1991
Pages1215–1220Eighty-eight of 143 hospitals in New York State providing psychiatric inpatient treatment responded to a mailed questionnaire designed to determine the size of three subgroups of chemical abusers—alcohol abusers, drug abusers, and polychemical abusers—...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.42.12.1215Publication date: 01 December 1991
Pages1221–1224Seven critical cases in which patients at major psychiatric risk received less than adequate managed care are presented. Five patients committed suicide, one patient progressed to psychosis, and one became permanently physically disabled. In all seven ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.42.12.1221Publication date: 01 December 1991
Pages1224–1227The organization of inpatient psychiatric treatment in general hospitals was investigated using data from the Hospital Discharge Surveys for 1980 and 1985 and definitions of psychiatric services used by the American Hospital Association and the National ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.42.12.1224Publication date: 01 December 1991
Pages1228–1233In Maryland a six-month fiscal incentive to promote nursing homes' acceptance of chronic patients discharged from state psychiatric hospitals was evaluated after one year. During the fiscal year of the incentive program, such placements (N=182) increased ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.42.12.1228Publication date: 01 December 1991
Pages1233–1237Evidence suggests that violence by psychiatric inpatients, especially in public-sector hospitals, may be on the rise. The authors present a model policy developed at a state hospital for deciding whether to prosecute presumptively criminal assaults by ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.42.12.1233Publication date: 01 December 1991
Pages1237–1240During a 25-week period, all incidents of aggressive behavior in a 19-bed psychiatric acute care unit were systematically recorded using the Staff Observation Aggression Scale. Forty-seven of the 163 patients admitted to the unit were aggressive on 119 ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.42.12.1237Publication date: 01 December 1991
Pages1241–1247This study tested the hypothesis that negative symptoms and quality of life for patients with functional psychoses are associated with family environment. Fifty-seven first-admission patients with functional psychoses were assessed at hospital admission ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.42.12.1241Publication date: 01 December 1991
Pages1248–1251In a ten-year prospective study, mortality among psychiatric outpatients under age 40 was investigated in a sample of 322 Belgian patients who first visited a community mental health center in a district of Brussels between 1970 and 1973. Fifteen of the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.42.12.1248Publication date: 01 December 1991
Pages1252–1253This paper describes an example of how the principles embodied in guidelines become policy. We believe our policy is quite consistent with the APA guidelines and that our successful experience in implementing this policy confirms the usefulness of the APA ...
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