Psychiatric Services
- Volume 43
- Number 10
- October 1992
Article
Publication date: 01 October 1992
Pages962–964Our own experience in training psychiatric residents and psychology interns reflects a general consensus between disciplines and among participants of all persuasions ( payers, insurers, providers, and educators) that managed mental health care can ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.43.10.962Publication date: 01 October 1992
Pages969–971This column provides the clinician with information to better understand the implications of the use of liquid forms of psychotropic medication. Liquid psychotropic medications have a clear, delimited role in the psychopharmacologic armamentarium. Their ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.43.10.969Publication date: 01 October 1992
Pages975–984Alcohol abuse and dependence in elderly persons is of growing social concern. The most consistent findings of cross-sectional and longitudinal studies are that the quantity and frequency of akohol consumption is higher in elderly men than in elderly ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.43.10.975Publication date: 01 October 1992
Pages985–989One hundred thirty-seven older alcoholic patients were randomly assigned to two different inpatient treatment programs at a Veterans Affairs medical center and followed for one year after discharge. The older alcoholic rehabilitation (OAR) program was ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.43.10.985Publication date: 01 October 1992
Pages990–995The relationship of age and of level of adaptive functioning to comorbidity of mental disorders among alcoholics was studied in a survey of all alcoholics seeking outpatient mental health treatment in the Veterans Affairs mental health care system during ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.43.10.990Publication date: 01 October 1992
Pages996–1000A collaboration establishedin 1974 between the Pennsylvania State Office of Mental Health and Western Psychiatric institute and Clinic of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center provides a comprebensive program of continuing mental health education, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.43.10.996Publication date: 01 October 1992
Pages1000–1004Psychiatric patients frequently experience serious symptoms and demonstrate disturbed behaviors in the very early postdischarge period. Based on 25 years of clinical experience, the author reviews symptoms and behaviors that can occur and notes that they ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.43.10.1000Publication date: 01 October 1992
Pages1005–1010A longitudinal experimental design was used to compare the effectiveness of three community-based treatment programs serving homeless mentally ill people: traditional outpatient treatment offered by a mental health clinic, a daytime drop-in center, and a ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.43.10.1005Publication date: 01 October 1992
Pages1010–1016Six bundred homeless men and 300 homeless women in St. Louis were systematically interviewed using the revised Diagnostic Interview Schedule that includes a module for assessment of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Most subjects with PTSD had an ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.43.10.1010Publication date: 01 October 1992
Pages1017–1023A cross-sectional study compared characteristics of homeless adults with and without substance abuse, physical health problems, and history of psycbiatric hospitalization when they first became homeless. Self-report data on demographic characteristics, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.43.10.1017Publication date: 01 October 1992
Pages1023–1025Psychiatric patients have an increased risk for choking compared with the general population because of risk factors such as medication side effects and food gorging. A state hospital program for managing patients with dysphagia, or difficulty swallowing, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.43.10.1023Publication date: 01 October 1992
Pages1028–1030This survey revealed that staff perceptions about the reasons for homelessness among recidivists were basically correct. However, it found that all recidivists, even those with stable housing, did not comply well with aftercare plans. In their stories of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.43.10.1028Publication date: 01 October 1992
Pages1033–1035Suspension of Maryland's clinical review panels lasted more than a year. The Maryland court listed what additional protections needed to be written into the law, and new legislation on panels was passed during the next legislative session and went into ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.43.10.1033Publication date: 01 October 1992
Pages1040–1041Study of both the failures and the successes of the collaboration has revealed that the most effective activities have been those that help individual nurses surmount barriers to their professional development. The barriers include those created by ...
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