Psychiatric Services
- Volume 43
- Number 7
- July 1992
Article
Publication date: 01 July 1992
Page672An article in the news section of the June issue (page 654) erroneously identified federal appeals court judge David L. Bazelon as the late Judge Bazelon. Although he is in ill health and no longer active in judicial matters, Judge Bazelon continues to ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.43.7.672Publication date: 01 July 1992
Pages677–680Cocaine abusers may present to emergency care systems with a variety of symptoms resembling various neuropsychiatric syndromes. The differential diagnostic assessment of these patients can prove quite challenging. Several other factors further complicate ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.43.7.677Publication date: 01 July 1992
Pages689–699Obsessive-compulsive disorder is a well-defined clinical syndrome that has been difficult to treat with standard psychotherapies and medications. Data accumulated over the last decade have demonstrated that the disorder is relatively common and frequently ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.43.7.689Publication date: 01 July 1992
Pages700–703Medical records of the first 37 patients to begin clozapine treatment at a state hospital in Oregon were reviewed for six months before clozapine treatment and six months after. Patients had a long history of schizophrenia and had responded poorly to ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.43.7.700Factors Predicting Referral to Inpatient or Outpatient Treatment From Psychiatric Emergency Services
Publication date: 01 July 1992
Pages703–708Dispositional decisions in ten psychiatric emergency rooms in New York State were examined using logistic regression. Variables influencing recommendations for inpatient or outpatient psychiatric treatment were fairly consistent across the hospitals. All ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.43.7.703Publication date: 01 July 1992
Pages709–712Fifty-three long-stay patients on the back wards of a large psychiatric hospital in London were assessed to determine their suitability for other placements after the hospital was closed. The general and deviant behavior subscales of the REHAB Scale were ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.43.7.709Publication date: 01 July 1992
Pages713–716It is conservatively estimated that 8 percent of inmates in U. S. prisons have significant psychiatric impairment. Correctional mental health systems are often unable to provide adequate treatment to such inmates because of staff recruitment problems. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.43.7.713Publication date: 01 July 1992
Pages716–719With increasing recognition of the role of organic factors in the etiology of psychiatric disorders, greater use of neurodiagnostic tests is expected. Clinical electroencephalography (EEG) is a noninvasive, low-cost neurodiagnostic technique widely ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.43.7.716Publication date: 01 July 1992
Pages720–724A single-case-study approach was used to identify the best medication for treating resistiveness to care in patients with moderately advanced dementia. The double-blind research design incorporated three medications, placebo washout periods, multiple ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.43.7.720Publication date: 01 July 1992
Pages724–727Although persons with chronic mental illness have a high incidence of physical health problems, they are often ill equipped to seek care within complex health care systems and tend to depend on community mental health centers as their only source of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.43.7.724Publication date: 01 July 1992
Pages728–729Mr. A's hyperventilation represents the potentially maladaptive ways in which patients obtain gratification. The danger associated with the behavior is seemingly less than that of the drug use it replaced. This trade-off underscores the complexity of the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.43.7.728Publication date: 01 July 1992
Pages732–733Major elements in the treatment of mentally ill offenders found unfit to stand trial are assessing the specific clinical factors affecting each patient's functional status and planning for individualized services to address these factors. A didactic group ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.43.7.732Publication date: 01 July 1992
Pages734–735The results of this study, like those of the study by Sacks and associates (4), suggest that patients with severe mental illness are at high risk of contracting and spreading HIV. The first step in addressing the problem is aggressive education; the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.43.7.734Publication date: 01 July 1992
Pages738–739It is commonly assumed that parties in mediation must be "rational." This case presents evidence that high-functioning psychotic patients can successfully use mediation during lucid periods when sufficient support is available. Patients' new insights ...
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