Psychiatric Services
- Volume 45
- Number 11
- November 1994
Article
Publication date: 01 November 1994
Page1068On the October 1994 table of contents, Arnold Werner, M.D., should have been listed as the author of "Audiovisual Overview: The Monica Tapes: Recording a 40-Year Developmental Study," published on pages 973-974 and 977.
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.45.11.1068Publication date: 01 November 1994
Pages1085–1089Although managed care is an established force in the private sector, there is growing interest and experimentation with this concept in the public sector. This interest has been generated by the increased demand for services, the shrinking resource base ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.45.11.1085Publication date: 01 November 1994
Pages1090–1096Objective: The Monroe-Livingston demonstration project's capitation payment system (CPS) was evaluated to determine whether capitated funding of mental health care, compared with fee-for-service funding, could reduce hospitalization rates and improve ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.45.11.1090Publication date: 01 November 1994
Pages1097–1103Objective: Total monetized and nonmonetized costs and benefits to society of the Monroe-Livingston demonstration project's capitated payment system (CPS) were analyzed. Methods: Total costs and benefits of care for individuals who were prerandomized to an ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.45.11.1097Publication date: 01 November 1994
Pages1104–1108Objective: The study attempted to increase understanding of nursing staff members' beliefs and concerns about work safety and patient assault. Metbods: A study conducted at a university-affiliated psychiatricfacility in California in the late 1980s was ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.45.11.1104Publication date: 01 November 1994
Pages1109–1113Objective: The authors sought information on the number, structure, and effectiveness of programs aimedat diverting mentally ill inmates from the criminal justice system into the mental health treatment system. Methods: A working definition ofajail ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.45.11.1109Publication date: 01 November 1994
Pages1113–1116Objective: in a follow-up to a survey ten years earlier, the authors investigated current administrative relationships between academic departments of psycbiatry and state hospitals. Methods: A 20-item questionnaire was sent to the chairs of the 110 ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.45.11.1113Publication date: 01 November 1994
Pages1117–1121Objective: The study examined psychiatric residents' attitudes toward; knowledge about, andtraining in the care of patients with chronic mental illness. Methods: The authors constructed a 41-item Residents' Attitude Toward the Chronically Mentally ill ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.45.11.1117Publication date: 01 November 1994
Pages1122–1126Between 1960 and 1990, the population of Jamaica's single mental hospitalwas reducedby 58 percent, from more than 3,000 to less than 1,300. Services were reoriented from mental-hospitalbased custodial care to rebabilitative, community-based care with no ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.45.11.1122