Psychiatric Services
- Volume 45
- Number 7
- July 1994
Article
Publication date: 01 July 1994
Pages647–650Samuel W. Perry, M.D., editor of the Treatment Planning column since January 1991, died March 15 of pancreatic cancer at the age of 53. Sam was a model of what a major contributor to the scientific literature should be. His ideas were translated into ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.45.7.647Publication date: 01 July 1994
Pages653–662The perceived association between violent behavior and serious mental illness was explored to determine the validity of claims by mental health advocates that individuals with serious mental illness are no more dangerous than members of the general ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.45.7.653Publication date: 01 July 1994
Pages663–668The relationship of mental illness and violence is an issue of longstanding clinical and policy importance, and recent research on this association has sparked renewed debate. The author formulates six statements on the association that seem warranted by ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.45.7.663Publication date: 01 July 1994
Pages669–679The authors examined the relationship between violent acts and threats by persons with serious mental illness, the size and composition of their social networks, and characteristics of the social support they received. Methods: A group of 169 respondents ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.45.7.669Publication date: 01 July 1994
Pages679–684Aggressive and intensive case management and a comprehensive array of community support services are the keys to reducing the risk of violence by people with serious mental illness in the community. The authors describe the elements of intensive case ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.45.7.679Publication date: 01 July 1994
Pages685–689Three major legal mechanisms exist for providing involuntary community treatment to people who are violent and mentally disabled: outpatient commitment, preventive commitment, and conditional release from a hospital. In most states, predicted ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.45.7.685Publication date: 01 July 1994
Pages690–699The author's aim was to review literature in the neuro-sciences and psychiatric clinical research reports about biological factors in aggression and the patho-physiological mechanisms that accompany aggression in neuropsychiatric syndromes. Method Studies ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.45.7.690Publication date: 01 July 1994
Pages700–705The study sought to identify basic clinical symptoms of violent inpatients and to determine the relationship between these symptoms and two outcome measures: whether violence was persistent or transient, and length of stay on a secure care unit designed ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.45.7.700Publication date: 01 July 1994
Pages706–710This study attempted to determine bow often psychiatric residents are exposed to violence, the types of violence they encounter, and what institutional changes might increase their safety. Methods: Safety conditions at two private general hospitals and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.45.7.706Publication date: 01 July 1994
Pages711–713Editor's note: The articles in this special issue are wide-ranging in their examination of the relationship between violent behavior and mental illness and are sometimes overlapping or contradictory in their findings and conclusions. To help synthesize ...
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