Psychiatric Services
- Volume 45
- Number 5
- May 1994
Article
Publication date: 01 May 1994
Pages421–435A robust literature supports a relationship between ADHD and psychoactive substance use disorders that has familial, genetic, environmental, and concurrent psychopathological elements. Conduct disorder appears to mediate ADHD and substance use disorders. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.45.5.421Publication date: 01 May 1994
Pages434–435Risperidone appears to be a significant advance in the treatment of schizophrenia. Its effectiveness for other serious psychiatric conditions, such as schizoaffective disorder and manic-depressive illness, has not been systematically studied. Further ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.45.5.434Publication date: 01 May 1994
Pages439–444Public mental health administrators are increasingly being beld accountable for outcomes in mental health systems characterized by longstanding, complex, and seemingly intractable problems. To meet demands for accountability and to satisfy accreditation ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.45.5.439Publication date: 01 May 1994
Pages444–450Objective: Untreated major mood disorders during pregnancy pose significant risks. The author reviews case reports of the use of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) during pregnancy to clarify potential risks and modifications of ECT techniques that make the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.45.5.444Increased Rates of Drug Abuse and Dependence After Onset of Mood or Anxiety Disorders in Adolescence
Publication date: 01 May 1994
Pages451–455Objective: The aim of the study was to examine the relationship of prevalence and age at onset of drug abuse and dependence to mood and anxiety disorders, using epidemiologic data. Methods: Lfe-table analyses using data collected on 20,745 respondents in ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.45.5.451Publication date: 01 May 1994
Pages456–460University-trained psychiatrists frequently avoid public-sector employment because they do not wish to be associated with stigmatized institutions. Inspirational recruitment-the elevation of poorly paid and unpleasant work to a noble cause-is one way of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.45.5.456Publication date: 01 May 1994
Pages460–465Objective; in 1990 the state of Arkansas shifted financial responsibility for state hospital services to community mental health centers; through a policy known as "bed buy-back," centers now authorize all state hospital admissions and prospectively ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.45.5.460Publication date: 01 May 1994
Pages466–470Legislatures, professional groups, and mental health consumers across the United States are currently engaged in a debate about the need for change in civil cormitment procedures. The authors summarize modifications of legislation and judicial opinion in ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.45.5.466Publication date: 01 May 1994
Pages470–474Objective: The authorś aim was to determine demographic and clinical correlates of s]elf-inflicted eye injury. Methods: The authors reviewed 41 cases of patients with self-inflicted eye injuries identified through MEDLARS searches of medical literature ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.45.5.470Publication date: 01 May 1994
Pages475–480Objective: This study investigated the contributions that persons with serious mental illness make to their families according to both clients and family respondents. Methods: The sample consisted of725 clients with serious mental illness and 725 family ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.45.5.475Publication date: 01 May 1994
Pages480–484Despite a rapidly growing population, continuing funding shortages, and threats to its national security, Israel has developed a comprehensive mental health care system, based on the psychiatric hospital. Services are provided through several networks, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.45.5.480Publication date: 01 May 1994
Pages485–487Soranusś writings survive only in fragments, and we know virtually nothing about the details of his life and death. Yet his legacy of acute clinical observation, and his emphasis on the importance of diagnosis and the need to adapt treatment to the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.45.5.485Publication date: 01 May 1994
Pages500-c–500A line was dropped from the paper entitled "Patient Response to Clozapine in a Forensic Psychiatric Hospital" by GuI M. Ebrahim and associates, pages 271-273 of the March issue. The second and third sentences ofthe next-to-last paragraph on page 273 ...
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