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Psychiatric Services

  • Volume 45
  • Number 6
  • June 1994

Article

Publication date: 01 June 1994

Pages549–555

Successful outpatient treatment of scbizophrenic disorders largely depends on the patient's ability to form a treatment alliance with mental health professionals. However, even in the context of competent pharmacotherapy, symptoms of schizophrenia often ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.45.6.549

Publication date: 01 June 1994

Pages556–561

The high proportion of persons presenting for treatment of psychiatric disorders who also have comorbid substance use problems severely challenges the capacity of mental health care programs to plan for patients' needs. One of the problems encountered in ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.45.6.556

Publication date: 01 June 1994

Pages562–568

Objective: The authors' goal was to determine the clinical characteristics of patients admitted to an acute voluntary psychiatric unit with a dual diagnosis treatment program. Methods: A total of 104 consecutive patients admitted the unit were divided ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.45.6.562

Publication date: 01 June 1994

Pages568–573

Objective: The researchers' aim was to evaluate the construct validity of a rating scale used by case managers to assess the clinical status of clients in a large out-patient treatment program for persons with severe mental illness and concurrent drug or ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.45.6.568

Publication date: 01 June 1994

Pages573–575

Objective: The study assessed the utility of a modified Zung SelfRated Depression Scale (SDS) in detecting major depression among Eskimo patients in the Bering Straits region of Alaska. Methods: The modified SDS was administered to Eskimo patients ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.45.6.573

Publication date: 01 June 1994

Pages576–580

Objective: The goals of the study were to examine the composition, operation, and purpose of ethics committees in state mental hospitals, to determine whether committees were accessible to patients and family members, and to identify frequently addressed ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.45.6.576

Publication date: 01 June 1994

Pages580–585

Objective: The study examined behavioral and cognitive factors that may place mentally ill persons at increased risk of infection by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Methods: Sixty-one patients consecutively admitted to a psychiatric inpatient unit ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.45.6.580

Publication date: 01 June 1994

Pages586–596

Objective: The authors examined the relationship between religious affiliation and psychiatric disorder among Protestant members of the baby-boom generation (those born between 1945 and 1966) who resided in the Piedmont area of North Carolina. Methods: ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.45.6.586

Publication date: 01 June 1994

Pages597–600

Interventions based on the philosophy of social constructionism can be used for the treatment of patients who are intractably aggressive. The interventions are aimed at disrupting common interactive patterns between the patient and treaters in the ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.45.6.597

Publication date: 01 June 1994

Pages601–603

Federal regulations governing the protection of human research subjects fail to specifically address research involving persons with mental illness. in 1990 the New York State Office of Mental Health issued regulations covering such research. The ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.45.6.601

Publication date: 01 June 1994

Pages604–605

As has been found in a variety of other studies, the mortality rate for the seriously mentally ill population was more than twice the mortality rate for individuals in a comparable general population. Furthermore, although the increased mortality rate for ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.45.6.604

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