Psychiatric Services
- Volume 45
- Number 2
- February 1994
Article
Publication date: 01 February 1994
Pages117–119Since the early 1980s consensus has been reached on the diagnosis and treatment of some mental disorders in elderly persons, but systems for delivery of comprehensive care have yet to be developed. The importance of specialized training in treating mental ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.45.2.117Publication date: 01 February 1994
Pages123–126Objective: To help identify outpatients who may be at risk for suicide, the authors used data from psychological autopsies of completed suicides to develop a profile of the clinical and demographic characteristics of suicidal patients. Methods: Ninety-...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.45.2.123Publication date: 01 February 1994
Pages127–132Objective: Most studies of violent behavior among psychiatric patients focus on inpatients or patients recently discharged from psychiatric units. To explore violent behavior among patients living in the community, the authors examined the prevalence of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.45.2.127Publication date: 01 February 1994
Pages133–137Objective: Previous research on violence and mental disorder has typically focused on the relationship between diagnosis and risk of violence or between symptoms within a particular diagnostic category and risk of violence. The authors' goal was to ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.45.2.133Publication date: 01 February 1994
Pages138–141Objective: The purpose of the study was to obtain staff opinions on the use of seclusion and restraint with acutely psychotic psychiatric patients in a forensic hospital. Methods: A 40-item questionnaire was distributed to 129 staff members who routinely ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.45.2.138Publication date: 01 February 1994
Pages142–146Objective: This study explored whether emergency rooms in a metropolitan county had standard procedures or offered services that address the needs of victims of interpersonal violence. Methods: Fifty hospital emergency rooms (75 percent of the facilities ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.45.2.142Publication date: 01 February 1994
Pages147–151Community mental health centers are becoming increasingly involved in the delivery of services to victims and perpetrators of domestic violence. To help centers plan a domestic violence program and address the risk of liability in treating clients who may ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.45.2.147Publication date: 01 February 1994
Pages152–155Objective: The authors describe two psychosocially oriented community residential facilities for patients with persistent and severe mental disorders and multiple failures at community tenure, and they report a retrospective study designed to evaluate ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.45.2.152Publication date: 01 February 1994
Pages156–160Housing is integral to successful community care for many people with mental disabilities. To try to eliminate discrimination in access to housing for people with physical or mental disability and to support their right to live in the community of their ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.45.2.156Publication date: 01 February 1994
Pages160–162A relatively low-cost outcome evaluation program was developed for a 147-bed psychiatric hospital with a variety of inpatient programs and extensive outpatient and partial hospital facilities. The evaluation staff consists of the research director, a ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.45.2.160Publication date: 01 February 1994
Pages163–167Objective: The study sought to dotermine the proportion of patients treated in a jail psychiatric service who were jailed again within a year of release and to identify the factors that most effectively predicted jail recidivism in this population. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.45.2.163Publication date: 01 February 1994
Pages172–174This study demonstrated that cooperation between the information services of a mental health system and a correctional system can provide useful research data. An ongoing need exists for close coordination between mental health and correctional services ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.45.2.172Publication date: 01 February 1994
Pages178-a–178The affiliation of Marjonie J. Robertson, Ph.D., was listed incorrectly in the paper entitled "Life-Styles, Adaptive Strategies, and Sexual Behaviors of Homeless Adolescents" in the December 1993 issue. When the article was written, Dr. Robertson was ...
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