Psychiatric Services
- Volume 42
- Number 2
- February 1991
Article
Publication date: 01 February 1991
Pages145–152One function of contemporary psychiatric emergency services is to divert patient admissions from state hospitals. Underlying this mandate are a series of untested assumptions about the positive effects of admission diversion. The author examines these ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.42.2.145Publication date: 01 February 1991
Pages153–158Group psychotherapy has long been a part of most inpatient and partial hospital programs, but conducting groups in these settings has become more difficult as the average patient stay has shortened. The authors integrate findings from previous research in ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.42.2.153Publication date: 01 February 1991
Pages158–162Coming out is a core developmental process for homosexual persons that spans many years. It usually begins in childhood with feelings of being different and progresses through various stages, induding acknowledgment of homosexuality, disclosure to others, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.42.2.158Publication date: 01 February 1991
Pages163–165The information obtained from a non-English-speaking psychiatric patient through an untrained interpreter can be inaccurate and misleading. The authors briefly outline the most common errors that untrained interpreters make, including omission, addition, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.42.2.163Publication date: 01 February 1991
Pages166–170Psychiatric hospitalization is increasingly a target of cost reduction by employers and third-party payers. The authors describe an evaluation of a biobebavioral model for the treatment of a mixed population of public - and privatesector patients in the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.42.2.166Publication date: 01 February 1991
Pages171–175Findings of a study of mental health visits to general hospital outpatient clinics and emergency rooms by elderly persons and younger adults were compared with findings from an earlier survey of mental health visits to officebased physicians. In both ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.42.2.171Publication date: 01 February 1991
Pages176–181Demograpbic and dinical data are presented on 4,138 veterans assessedin the 20-site Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Domiciliary Care for Homeless Veterans program during its first year of operation. More than two-thirds of the veterans who were ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.42.2.176Publication date: 01 February 1991
Pages182–186Studies of the prevalence of previously unrecognized physical illness among psychiatric patients have paid little attention to the treatment implications of such illness. The authors describe a study in California in which 78 inpatients received an ...
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