Psychiatric Services
- Volume 46
- Number 2
- February 1995
Publication date: 01 February 1995
Pages131–135OBJECTIVE: Admissions to an acute care psychiatric hospital were studied to determine what proportion of admissions were for HIV-related psychiatric disturbances, what evidence exists that the HIV-related admissions constitute a new population of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.46.2.131Publication date: 01 February 1995
Pages136–140OBJECTIVE: This study sought to estimate the prevalence of non-HIV sexually transmitted diseases among patients admitted to a psychiatric emergency service and to identify characteristics that might place members of this population at increased risk of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.46.2.136Publication date: 01 February 1995
Pages141–145OBJECTIVE: Persons who provide care for individuals with chronic mental illness experience both objective burden (observable, tangible cost) and subjective (perceived) burden. This study sought to determine the relative power of behaviors of chronic ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.46.2.141Publication date: 01 February 1995
Pages146–152OBJECTIVE: Mental health consumers with serious mental illness were surveyed to obtain information about their experiences with and attitudes toward forced psychiatric treatment. METHODS: A 61-item survey questionnaire developed by the authors was ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.46.2.146Publication date: 01 February 1995
Pages153–156OBJECTIVES: The study replicated methods used in an earlier study to determine the prevalence of dissociative disorders among patients with substance use disorders and to examine demographic characteristics and history of childhood abuse among patients ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.46.2.153Article
Publication date: 01 February 1995
Page156In the paper entitled "Opportunities for Psychiatrists in Managed Care Organizations" by Arthur Lazarus, M.D., in the December 1994 issue of Hospital and Community Psychiatry (pages 1206-1210), the heading in the last column of Table 2 should have ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.46.2.156Publication date: 01 February 1995
Pages157–160OBJECTIVE: The authors examined use of medical and mental health services before and after detoxification among a group of patients detoxified from benzodiazepines to see if the data suggested a reduction in service use and costs after detoxification, the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.46.2.157Publication date: 01 February 1995
Pages160–163That some therapists engage in sexual misconduct with patients has been unequivocally established. In recent years, however, some patients' allegations of sexual misconduct have been determined to be false. This paper describes four cases in which ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.46.2.160Publication date: 01 February 1995
Pages164–168OBJECTIVE: Male staff members at two state psychiatric hospitals were trained in nonviolent self-defense skills for dealing with potentially assaultive patients to determine whether such training could reduce the number of assaults and episodes of patient ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.46.2.164Publication date: 01 February 1995
Pages169–172The authors reviewed 21 studies assessing housing preferences of mental health consumers to examine current methods of assessment, to obtain information on the reliability and validity of the assessment instruments used, and to determine whether a better ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.46.2.169Publication date: 01 February 1995
Pages173–176The authors surveyed 80 hospitalized patients with serious mental illness and the patients' treatment teams to compare their perspectives about appropriate housing and support services following hospital discharge. The results showed that the opinions of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.46.2.173Publication date: 01 February 1995
Pages176–178A cross-sectional assessment of differences in social class and other sociodemographic variables at hospital admission for patients with psychotic disorders was carried out through a systematic survey of psychotic patients admitted to greater Baltimore ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.46.2.176Publication date: 01 February 1995
Pages179–181A consortium of social services agencies developed a comprehensive community mental health services program for homeless mentally ill offenders in Portland, Oregon. Residential services were provided in a single-room-occupancy hotel. Forty-seven clients ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.46.2.179Publication date: 01 February 1995
Pages181–183The authors consider the ethical issues involved in a case in which an elderly man suffering from recurrent, treatment-resistant depression expressed a wish to forgo life-sustaining treatment should it become necessary. The patient had no immediate life-...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.46.2.181Publication date: 01 February 1995
Pages184–185Psychiatrists must take steps to prepare for health reform that includes managed competition. They should focus on managed mental health care in their reading, reevaluate fundamental beliefs and values to encompass an understanding of managed care, and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.46.2.184Article
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