Psychiatric Services
- Volume 43
- Number 8
- August 1992
Article
Publication date: 01 August 1992
Pages771–773Classification systems are inherently imperfect. At best they represent a useful approximation of "nature." Yet reliable and valid diagnostic categories facilitate communication and clinical decision making and foster research. The work group welcomes ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.43.8.771Publication date: 01 August 1992
Pages781–789The Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1987 (OBRA-87) established criteria for Medicare-or Medicaid-certified nursing homes to use in admitting or retaining mentally ill patients. In effect, the law created five dispositional categories for residents or ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.43.8.781Publication date: 01 August 1992
Pages789–793Culture-bound syndromes have been described worldwide in many individuals and, for certain syndromes, in epidemic proportion, yet these disorders have been classified as rare and exotic conditions warranting minimal attention. Development of the fourth ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.43.8.789Publication date: 01 August 1992
Pages794–798improving the quality of life of persons with chronic mental illness is becoming an important treatment goal. in this study, 101 former acute care psychiatric inpatients with serious mental illness who were living in Mississippi communities were ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.43.8.794Publication date: 01 August 1992
Pages799–802Two scales developed in Great Britain, the QOL Profile and the General Satisfaction Questionnaire, were used to examine the relationship between type of case management services and quality of life and satisfaction with treatment of 68 long-term ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.43.8.799Publication date: 01 August 1992
Pages803–806Patients' satisfaction with the process and outcome of transfer between units of a private psychiatric hospital and the immediate impact of the transfer were examined through chart reviews (59 patients) and interviews (29 of the 59 patients). Results ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.43.8.803Publication date: 01 August 1992
Pages807–811in some cases of treatment-resistant chronic mental illness, it may be useful to reconsider the primary diagnosis. Patients with Asperger's syndrome, a rare pervasive developmental disorder, have characteristics such as eccentricities, emotional lability, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.43.8.807Publication date: 01 August 1992
Page811On page 744 and on the contents page of the July issue, Dr. Pinheiro's first name was incorrect; it should have been Marcio V. Pinheiro, M.D. The editors regret the error.
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.43.8.811Publication date: 01 August 1992
Pages812–815During the Persian Gulf War, the U.S. Army provided mental health care to soldiers using a model that emphasized the identification and management of factors associated with combat stress. Nonpathological labels, such as combat stress reaction, a non-...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.43.8.812Publication date: 01 August 1992
Pages816–820Clinicians have increasingly recognized posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among Vietnam veterans, but the disorder may be easily over looked among World War II combat veterans. The authors review recent studies of PTSD in older veterans and describe ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.43.8.816Publication date: 01 August 1992
Pages820–824A selective review of the literature describing treatment of refugee survivors of torture and trauma revealed that approaches to psychotherapy used in treating South American patients differed from those used in treating Indochinese patients. South ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.43.8.820Publication date: 01 August 1992
Pages825–828Mental health clinicians have assumed a more important role in the release of individuals held hostage by international terrorists. The author uses his experiences during three hostage releases in the late 1980s-the Achille Lauro incident, the hijacking ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.43.8.825Publication date: 01 August 1992
Pages829–831The unit was the first level of treatment for most subjects. It was located close to their units, enabling visits by unit members. Considering the large amount of symptomatology on admission, the average length of stay (four days) was relatively short, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.43.8.829Publication date: 01 August 1992
Pages831–833This study surveyed a relatively small sample. No attempt was made to perform diagnostic interviews on to evaluate the full spectrum of symptoms associated with posttraumatic stress disorder. However, the results suggest that personal injury may be highly ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.43.8.831Publication date: 01 August 1992
Pages833–835We found that patients in a state hospital were reasonably informed about Operation Desert Storm. Patients who had better orientation and patients who had spent less time in the hospital demonstrated a higher degree of knowledge, compared with longer-stay,...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.43.8.833Publication date: 01 August 1992
Pages838–839This study clearly demonstrated that traumatically stressful events occurred fairly frequently among clinical and nonclinical staff. The clinical staff reported a very high rate of PTSD-related symptoms. No evidence was found that clinicians were immune ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.43.8.838Publication date: 01 August 1992
Pages842–844The medical services unit has filled a significant gap in the services provided to persons with serious mental illness at the Mental Health Center of Dane County in Madison, Wisconsin. The efficacy of the program has not been formally evaluated. However, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.43.8.842Publication date: 01 August 1992
Pages844–845In this study, patients who benefited financially from extended admissions had a significantly greater proportion of hospital stays exceeding 20 days. The system of monetary rewards for veterans with service connected partial disabilities appears to ...
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