Psychiatric Services
- Volume 46
- Number 12
- December 1995
Publication date: 01 December 1995
Pages1247–1253OBJECTIVES: This paper reviews studies of patients who are heavy users of psychiatric services and identifies areas in which further research and evaluation are indicated. METHODS: Extensive searches were conducted of the English language psychiatric and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.46.12.1247Publication date: 01 December 1995
Pages1254–1257OBJECTIVE: The purpose of the study was to develop a descriptive profile of heavy users of services in the South Australian Mental Health Services. METHODS: Case notes for 50 heavy users were reviewed to obtain demographic and diagnostic information and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.46.12.1254Publication date: 01 December 1995
Pages1258–1263Although use of a token economy has been shown to have significant impact on adults and children with serious mental illness who participate in inpatient and community treatment programs, the intervention has not been widely adopted. The paper presents ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.46.12.1258Publication date: 01 December 1995
Pages1263–1266OBJECTIVES: Two-year outcomes of patients with schizophrenic disorders who were assigned to an intensive, team-based case management program and patients who received standard psychiatric services were assessed. The case management model featured ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.46.12.1263Publication date: 01 December 1995
Pages1267–1271OBJECTIVE: The study examined whether outreach teams of mental health professionals and police officers could assess and make appropriate dispositions for psychiatric emergency cases in the community, even in situations involving violence or potential ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.46.12.1267Publication date: 01 December 1995
Pages1272–1278The author describes a computer-based model that derives nonnursing staffing requirements from quantifiable performance expectations for structured psychotherapy and rehabilitation therapy. Input variables include treatment mode, contact hours, patient ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.46.12.1272Publication date: 01 December 1995
Pages1278–1283OBJECTIVE: Psychiatrists with American Psychiatric Association certification in administrative psychiatry were surveyed to determine their perceptions of the benefits of certification, their certification- related learning activities and interests, and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.46.12.1278Publication date: 01 December 1995
Pages1284–1286The reliability of psychiatric diagnoses made by psychiatric residents in the general emergency department of a university hospital was assessed by comparing those diagnoses with the inpatient discharge diagnoses of patients referred to the hospital's ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.46.12.1284Publication date: 01 December 1995
Pages1287–1288Twenty Cambodian refugees with premigration histories of trauma received an average of 16 sessions of individual therapy from a Cambodian bicultural counselor at a trauma treatment center in Sydney, Australia. Nineteen of the 20 patients reported that ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.46.12.1287Publication date: 01 December 1995
Pages1289–1291Many public-academic liaisions for training in psychiatry have developed in New York State over the past 40 years. Their goals have ranged from broadening residents' exposure to community patients to recruiting for state service. The state has developed ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.46.12.1289