Psychiatric Services
- Volume 43
- Number 1
- January 1992
Article
Publication date: 01 January 1992
Pages6–8Proposals to simplify the diagnostic criteria for antisocial personality disorder and to provide more emphasis on psychopathic traits are reasonable options to consider for DSM-IV. They are responsive to criticisms of DSM-III-R and to recent findings. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.43.1.6Publication date: 01 January 1992
Pages14–15Editor's note: Emergency psychiatry's central role in patient care has gained increasing visibility since the establishment of the American Association for Emergency Psychiatry in 1988. Major issues and developments in this important area of psychiatry ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.43.1.14Publication date: 01 January 1992
Pages25–32Many users consider telemedicine a partial solution to problems of delivering health care to remote areas or areas underserved by clicians. Current telemedical technology benefits from recent developments such as the decreased cost and improved quality of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.43.1.25Publication date: 01 January 1992
Pages32–37The Neuropsychiatric AIDS Rating Scale, which classifies HIV-related cognitive impairment along a six-stage continuum, was used to explore the relationship between the severity of impairment and management and residential problems among 318 persons in San ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.43.1.32Publication date: 01 January 1992
Pages38–43A program that provides comprehensive support services to young schxizophrenic adults and their families in Montreal was evaluated after one year to assess the needs of families, especially single-parent families, after the young adult patient left home. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.43.1.38Publication date: 01 January 1992
Page43In the paper entitled "States Strategics for Promoting Supported Housing for Persons With Psychiatric Disabilities" in the November 1991 issue (pages 1116-1119), the second author's name was spelled incorrectly. The authors are Joy A. Livingston, Ph. D., ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.43.1.43Publication date: 01 January 1992
Pages44–48Intake data for 61 children in three types of mental health programs in Philadelphia-partial hospitalization, home-based services, and outpatient treatment-were compared to examine an assumption of the continuum-of-care concept: the level of a program's ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.43.1.44Publication date: 01 January 1992
Pages49–53Data about 145 adolescent inpatients were used to examine the relationship between past patterns of aggressive behavior and behavior during the initial period of psychiatric hospitalization. During their first month in the hospital, adolescents with a ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.43.1.49Publication date: 01 January 1992
Pages54–58Despite concerns about the restrictiveness of care and treatment procedures and settings for special populations, the concept of restrictiveness has seldom been defined or measured. This study describes the development of the Restrictiveness of Living ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.43.1.54Publication date: 01 January 1992
Pages58–61Third-party payers have become increasingly unwilling to fund long-term hospitalizations for adolescents. Inpatient adolescent programs have had to develop strategies to treat this difficult patient population much more rapidly. In late 1989 a short-term ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.43.1.58Publication date: 01 January 1992
Pages61–64A structured interview—the Anxiety Disorder Interview Schedule Revised (ADIS-R)—was used to assess the presence of panic disorder and other anxiety disorders in 100 psychiatric outpatients at an inner-city municipal hospital, most of whom were black and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.43.1.61Publication date: 01 January 1992
Pages65–68Despite extensive legislative reformulation of civil commitment procedures, empirical studies have shown that civil commitment hearings continue to be largely nonadversarial. The authors observed all civil commitment hearings during a three-month period ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.43.1.65Publication date: 01 January 1992
Pages69–71Medical insurance claims are increasingly important as a source of data in monitoring health care utilization and patient outcomes and in identifying patient cohorts for research. In a study that attempted to verify that those with Medicaid claims for ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.43.1.69Publication date: 01 January 1992
Pages76–77Communicative arson can be addressed through clinical measures targeted at such behavior. To do so effectively requires recognition of this form of firesetting and then appropriate intervention. Because of the destructive potential of fire, clinical ...
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