Psychiatric Services
- Volume 42
- Number 6
- June 1991
Article
Publication date: 01 June 1991
Pages570–572Dr. 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.42.6.570Publication date: 01 June 1991
Pages585–590The 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.42.6.585Publication date: 01 June 1991
Pages590–592The 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.42.6.590Publication date: 01 June 1991
Pages593–597The 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.42.6.593Publication date: 01 June 1991
Pages597–600Twenty 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.42.6.597Publication date: 01 June 1991
Pages601–604Changes 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.42.6.601Publication date: 01 June 1991
Pages605–608Clinical 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.42.6.605Publication date: 01 June 1991
Pages609–614Retrospective 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.42.6.609Publication date: 01 June 1991
Pages615–619Demographic 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.42.6.615Publication date: 01 June 1991
Pages619–623To 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.42.6.619Publication date: 01 June 1991
Pages624–627In 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 ...
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