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Psychiatric Services

  • Volume 42
  • Number 6
  • June 1991

Article

Publication date: 01 June 1991

Pages570–572

Dr. Sharfstein's introduction: Genuine managed care permits flexibility in inpatient insurance benefits and allows for more cost-effective care and treatment outside the hospital. This case report illustrates clearly the advantages of converting coverage ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.42.6.570

Publication date: 01 June 1991

Pages585–590

The literature on violence by psychiatric inpatients provides some evidence that rates of violence may be increasing over time and that they are higher in the United States than in other nations. This review examines the extent of inpatient violence and ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.42.6.585

Publication date: 01 June 1991

Pages590–592

The relationship between prevalence of tardive dyskinesia and ethnicity (black, white, or Hispanic) was examined in a group of 491 chronic psychiatric patients at a large state psychiatric hospital in California. Overall, the prevalence of tardive ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.42.6.590

Publication date: 01 June 1991

Pages593–597

The author recalls his experiences as an attendant at a state mental hospital in the early 1950s, before the introduction of psychotropic drugs. State hospitals of that era served not only as treatment centers for mentally ill patients but also as de ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.42.6.593

Publication date: 01 June 1991

Pages597–600

Twenty treatment protocols in a day treatment program for children and adolescents have been developed by multidisciplinary groups based on a review of 200 patients. The protocols classify patients according to symptom clusters and provide standardized ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.42.6.597

Publication date: 01 June 1991

Pages601–604

Changes in the prevalence of inpatient psychiatric treatment of children and youth in short-term general hospitals between 1980 and 1985 were investigated. During that period, the locus of treatment of mental illness among children and youth shifted ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.42.6.601

Publication date: 01 June 1991

Pages605–608

Clinical practice in health maintenance organizations (HMOs) currently has many of the features that will become increasingly common in the managed-care environment in which mental health treatment will be provided in the 1990s. HMO policies calling for ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.42.6.605

Publication date: 01 June 1991

Pages609–614

Retrospective self-report data from 60 chronic schizophrenic outpatients in a community support program (CSP) were used to study the relationship between a history of substance abuse and rate of psychiatric rehospitalization and outpatient treatment cost. ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.42.6.609

Publication date: 01 June 1991

Pages615–619

Demographic and clinical data were recorded for 324 patients who visited an AIDS-related psychiatric outpatient clinic over a three-year period. Seventy-five percent of the patients had a diagnosis of AIDS, AIDS-related complex, or asymptomatic HIV ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.42.6.615

Publication date: 01 June 1991

Pages619–623

To determine differences in inpatient psychiatric morbidity, a total of 573 soldiers seropositive for the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) were matched with 2,266 seronegative soldiers by age, sex, race, marital status, military rank, length of active ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.42.6.619

Publication date: 01 June 1991

Pages624–627

In this study, 39 laid-off mental health professionals responded to a questionnaire that focused on the emotional stress of being laid off and the respondents' efforts to cope with the stress. In the early weeks after lay-off, shock, disbelief, anger, and ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.42.6.624

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