Psychiatric Services
- Volume 44
- Number 4
- April 1993
Article
Publication date: 01 April 1993
Pages325–327Dr. Sharfstein's introduction: Managed care has had a profound impact on clinical practice. Clinicians find fourth and fifth parties are looking over thier shoulders to review their treatment plans for cost-efficiency. The biopsychosocial model of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.44.4.325Publication date: 01 April 1993
Pages341–347Behavioral interventions can augment the effects of antipsychotic medication in alleviating ballucinations, delusions, and conceptual disorganization. Such interventions may be based on operant conditioning and reinforcement strategies and on training in ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.44.4.341Publication date: 01 April 1993
Pages347–351Some researchers and theorists are convinced that graphic scenes of violence on television and in movies are inextricably linked to human aggression. Others insist that a link has not been conclusively established. This paper summarizes scientific studies ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.44.4.347Publication date: 01 April 1993
Pages352–357Objective: Characteristics attributed by nurses and by psychiatric residents to difficult-to-treat inpatients in a short-stay setting were compared to determine whether her discipline-specific perceptions of such patients existed. Methods: A total of 117 ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.44.4.352Publication date: 01 April 1993
Pages357–360Patients' fear of and objection to electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) have complicated the administration of this modality since its inception. Despite modifications in technique and pretreatment education over the years, these problems have not disappeared. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.44.4.357Publication date: 01 April 1993
Pages361–364The issue of therapists' liability for patients who commit suicide may depend on whether courts view the suicidal patient as competent to decide to follow or not follow an agreed-upon treatment plan. Therapists have not been found liable for malpractice ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.44.4.361Publication date: 01 April 1993
Pages364–367Many long-term psychotherapies begin without sufficient attention to an in formed-consent process. Failure to obtain informed consent may leave patients ill prepared to question the recommendation for long-term psychotherapy or to make alternate treatment ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.44.4.364Publication date: 01 April 1993
Pages367–371Objective: Patterns of seclusion and restraint over a one-year period at 82 Veterans Affairs medical centers were examined to determine whether use of these interventions was influenced by hospital characteristics (such as geographic location, per diem ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.44.4.367Publication date: 01 April 1993
Page371Acknowledgment of grant support was omitted from the paper "Resilmence in Adversity Among Long-Term Survivors of AIDS," by Judith G. Rabkin, Robert Remien, Lewis Katoff, and Janet B. W. Williams, published in the February 1993 issue, pages 162-167. The ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.44.4.371Publication date: 01 April 1993
Pages372–375Objective: The study examined characteristics of patients who made repeat visits to the psychiatric emergency service of a Veterans Affairs medical center. Methods: Computer records of patients who visited the emergency service were retrospectively ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.44.4.372Publication date: 01 April 1993
Pages376–380Objective: Patients who visited a psychiatric emergency service were studied to determine whether repeat visitors, who consume a disproportionate share of services, could be identified by demographic and diagnostic characteristics. Methods: Data were ...
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