Psychiatric Services

Despite the increasing demand for outcome assessment measures, no published reports have provided a standardized way to assess psychiatric inpatients that includes diagnosis and observer ratings of psychopathology. This paper reviews general principles ...

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Relationships between psychiatric symptomatology, work skills, and future vocational performance

Publication date: 01 April 1995

Pages353–358

OBJECTIVE: Experts do not agree on what, if any, relationships exist between diagnosis, symptomatology, work skills, and the future vocational performance of persons with severe mental illness. The objective of this study was to longitudinally examine ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.46.4.353

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Publication date: 01 April 1995

Page358

In the paper entitled "Rates of Sexually Transmitted Diseases Among Patients in a Psychiatric Emergency Service," by B. Todd Sitzman, M.D., M.P.H., Earl A. Burch, Jr., M.D., Lisa S. Bartlett, M.P.H., and Guillermo Urrutia, M.D., in the February 1995 issue ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.46.4.358

Disability compensation and work among veterans with psychiatric and nonpsychiatric impairments

Publication date: 01 April 1995

Pages359–365

OBJECTIVE: This study examined the relationship of Department of Veterans Affairs disability compensation payments and employment among veterans with psychiatric disorders and veterans whose impairments were nonpsychiatric. METHODS: Data from a 1987-1988 ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.46.4.359

Service utilization and costs of care for severely mentally ill clients in an intensive case management program

Publication date: 01 April 1995

Pages365–371

OBJECTIVE: The study evaluated the effects of an intensive case management model on clients' use of inpatient and outpatient psychiatric care and on the costs of care. METHODS: Ninety clients of a county mental health system who were frequent users of ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.46.4.365

Evaluating the effectiveness of a residential rehabilitation program for homeless veterans

Publication date: 01 April 1995

Pages372–375

OBJECTIVE: This study sought to evaluate the effects of a residential rehabilitation program for homeless mentally ill veterans on several measures of subjects' community adjustment. METHODS: Subjects' housing status, financial and vocational status, ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.46.4.372

Effects of social skills training and social milieu treatment on symptoms of schizophrenia

Publication date: 01 April 1995

Pages376–380

OBJECTIVE: The study compared the effects of social skills training and social milieu treatment on symptoms of schizophrenia, particularly on negative symptoms. METHODS: Thirty-three patients aged 18 to 55 years with a diagnosis of schizophrenia were ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.46.4.376

New directions in research on involuntary outpatient commitment

Publication date: 01 April 1995

Pages381–385

OBJECTIVE: Involuntary outpatient commitment has been used as a method of improving tenure in community programs for individuals with severe and persistent mental illness. This paper reviews literature on research about involuntary outpatient commitment ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.46.4.381

18-month outcome of clozapine treatment for 100 patients in a state psychiatric hospital

Publication date: 01 April 1995

Pages386–389

OBJECTIVE: The atypical antipsychotic medication clozapine is an effective treatment for refractory psychosis; however, the efficacy of clozapine when used in public mental health programs has yet to be fully characterized. This study assessed the outcome ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.46.4.386

Projections of housing disruption among adults with mental illness who live with aging parents

Publication date: 01 April 1995

Pages390–394

OBJECTIVE: The need to plan for the future housing needs of adults with serious mental illness who reside with aging parents is an issue of increasing importance to mental health policy makers as well as family members. This study provides estimates of ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.46.4.390

A survey of new long-stay hospital patients in an Irish health board area

Publication date: 01 April 1995

Pages394–398

OBJECTIVES: The aims of this study were to determine the number and rate of accumulation of new long-stay hospital patients in one of Ireland's eight health board areas, to describe their demographic and clinical features, and to assess their needs in ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.46.4.394

Depression and anxiety disorder among older male inmates at a federal correctional facility

Publication date: 01 April 1995

Pages399–401

The conditions of incarceration and the sociodemographic and health characteristics of 95 older male inmates of a federal correctional facility were studied to determine the relationship of such variables to rates of psychiatric disorder among older male ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.46.4.399

Prevalence and symptoms at onset of bipolar illness among adolescent inpatients

Publication date: 01 April 1995

Pages402–404

The records of 236 adolescents (116 males and 120 females) admitted to an inpatient psychiatric unit over an eight-year period were retrospectively reviewed to determine the characteristics of patients with a discharge diagnosis of bipolar disorder. Forty-...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.46.4.402

Age as a factor in identifying young adult chronic patients who are difficult to treat

Publication date: 01 April 1995

Pages404–406

Age younger than 35 years has been used as a factor in identifying young adult chronic mentally ill patients, a group considered difficult to treat due to their rebelliousness, lack of insight about their mental illness, and increased likelihood of ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.46.4.404