Psychiatric Services
- Volume 45
- Number 1
- January 1994
Article
Publication date: 01 January 1994
Pages7–8The apparently perpetual revisiting of issues related to the care and treatment of seriously mentally ill persons is no better illustrated than by examining patients' first-person accounts across the decades. We have recently done so in compiling an ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.45.1.7Publication date: 01 January 1994
Pages21–22Occupational therapy practitioners intervene in a wide variety of settings with people who abuse substances. Recognition of the effect that the substance abuse has had on the occupational functioning of the individual and the family is a unique dimension ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.45.1.21Publication date: 01 January 1994
Page25The journal's mission is to provide a forum for dissemination of clinical and services research, clinical education and training, and clinical experience as well as commentary to all practitioners and trainees in the professions serving mentally ill ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.45.1.25Publication date: 01 January 1994
Pages27–31Many studies of clinical populations have reported significant differences between whites and blacks in prevalence rates of mental disorders. However, data from the Epidemiologic Catchment Area study indicate only modest differences. The author describes ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.45.1.27Publication date: 01 January 1994
Pages32–37Older black Americans are increasingly seen in mental health settings, although prevalence rates of many psychiatric disorders in this group are unknown because black Americans are underrepresented in epidemiologic studies. Improved treatment of this ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.45.1.32Publication date: 01 January 1994
Pages38–42Objective: In a previous study of outpatients with chronic mental illness who were treated with neuroleptic medication, the authors found a higher incidence of tardive dyskinesia among blacks than among whites. in this study the authors examined ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.45.1.38Publication date: 01 January 1994
Pages43–49Objective: Few diagnostic studies have reported rates of psychiatric comorbidity among cocaine addicts according to race. This study examines psychiatric comorbidity in African-American and white cocaine addicts. Methods: Rates of psychiatric comorbidity ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.45.1.43Publication date: 01 January 1994
Pages49–53Members of the Rastafari movement, which originated in Jamaica, are found in the Caribbean and in parts of the United States and Europe with a large Afro-Caribbean population. To help mental health professionals serve members of this group more ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.45.1.49Publication date: 01 January 1994
Pages54–57Treatment of chronic mentally ill inpatients in public settings can be a difficult endeavor due to lack of adequate resources and problems in recruiting and retaining qualifled staff Psychologists can make a valuable contribution in state mental hospitals,...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.45.1.54Publication date: 01 January 1994
Pages58–62Objective: The study examined the extent to which group home residents identified with the roles of psychiatric patient and community member. it was hypothesized that a longer history of hospitalization and a lower level of functioning would be associated ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.45.1.58Publication date: 01 January 1994
Pages62–65Objective: The purpose of the study was to determine whether case managers referred clients with different needs to programs with different goals and levels of intensity, and thus with different costs. MethodL: A total of 150 case managers were asked to ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.45.1.62Publication date: 01 January 1994
Pages66–69Psychiatric residency training programs in rural communities face many well-known obstacles, including lack of structure, professional isolation, and excessive demands on residents to provide clinical services. The author describes a psychiatric residency ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.45.1.66Publication date: 01 January 1994
Pages72–74African Americans were found to be overrepresented in inpatient facilities in which admissions were restricted to civil commitments. The extent of their overrepresentation among outpatients was not as great. In addition, African Americans were ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.45.1.72Publication date: 01 January 1994
Pages76–78This brief paper only hints at the richness of data produced by combining qualitative and quantitative methodologies through triangulation. As a result of the strong consumer voice provided by ethnography, we were able to breath life into quantitative ...
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