Psychiatric Services
- Volume 45
- Number 12
- December 1994
Article
Publication date: 01 December 1994
Pages1177–1178For the psychiatric emergency service, the new role of providing definitive treatment can give staff a tangible sense of the benefits of good care. Patients who were seen as incurable return for follow-up with stable mood, resolved psychosis, and a new ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.45.12.1177Publication date: 01 December 1994
Pages1187–1189Multidisciplinary teams have been used for decades in many mental health settings, including community mental health centers and psychiatric inpatient units. Even so, most psychiatrists did not use affiliated health professionals in their offices, and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.45.12.1187Publication date: 01 December 1994
Pages1191–1196Objective: Postpartum depression affects between 10 and 15 percent of new mothers. These mothers are apprehensive about recurrence after later births. This study tested the efficacy of antidepressant medication administered during the postpartum period to ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.45.12.1191Publication date: 01 December 1994
Pages1196–1200Objective: The study assessed how clients' housing preference and other variables were related to the acquisition of Section 8 certificates, facilitating independent living, for homeless persons with severe mental illness who were being served by an ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.45.12.1196Publication date: 01 December 1994
Pages1201–1205Objective: This study examined diversity during the late 1980s in managed care programs for mental health, alcohol abuse, and drug abuse to identify ways in which research can generate more meaningful data on the effectiveness of utilization review ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.45.12.1201Publication date: 01 December 1994
Pages1206–1210Managed care organizations have used psychiatrists primarily for their patient care skills, and their potential for performing administrative and managerial services for managed care organizations has not been fully appreciated. However, the role of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.45.12.1206Publication date: 01 December 1994
Pages1211–1214The authors trace the development of legal protection of the rights of mentally ill persons to the experiences of Gabriel-Honoré de Riqueti, the Count of Mirabeau, who was imprisoned without due process more than 200 years ago. influenced by the ideas of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.45.12.1211Publication date: 01 December 1994
Pages1215–1219Objectives: Patients with a diagnosis of borderline personality disorder were studied to learn how they experienced the disorder and its treatment. Methods: Life history narratives were obtained from ten patients with borderline personality disorder in a ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.45.12.1215Publication date: 01 December 1994
Pages1220–1223Objective: The study examined whether adjunctive treatment with trazodone would reduce negative symptomatology in patients with chronic, residual schizophrenia. Methods: Patients selected for the study had an established clinical diagnosis of chronic ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.45.12.1220Publication date: 01 December 1994
Pages1224–1228The early argument for caring for the insane in general hospitals arose in the late 1800s in the context of criticisms of the asylum made by neurologists and some psychiatrists. The movement in support of general hospital psychiatry gained ground within ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.45.12.1224Publication date: 01 December 1994
Pages1233–1235About half of the medical admissions of patients with schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder we studied required psychiatric consultation. In this patient population, psychiatric sonsultation was positively associated with younger age, longer length ...
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