Psychiatric Services
- Volume 46
- Number 9
- September 1995
Publication date: 01 September 1995
Pages893–897OBJECTIVE: Although mobile crisis services have been widely accepted as an effective approach to emergency service delivery, no systematic studies have documented the prevalence or effectiveness of these services. This survey gathered national data on the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.46.9.893Publication date: 01 September 1995
Pages898–906OBJECTIVE: The study used a societal costs model to estimate costs of assertive community treatment for persons with severe mental illness. METHODS: Resource use and cost data were collected for mental health, health, social, and law enforcement, and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.46.9.898Publication date: 01 September 1995
Pages906–910OBJECTIVE: The literature on psychopathology among children in family foster care published in the last 20 years was reviewed to estimate prevalence and types of psychopathology in this population. METHODS: A comprehensive computerized database was ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.46.9.906Publication date: 01 September 1995
Pages911–914OBJECTIVES: Recent studies have supported the belief that command hallucinations can induce dangerous behavior. This study tried to replicate previous findings that compliance with the command was associated with delusions related to hallucinations and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.46.9.911Publication date: 01 September 1995
Pages915–918OBJECTIVE: The study investigated whether exposure to other suicidal adolescents led to suicide contagion among patients hospitalized on an acute adolescent psychiatry unit. It also examined whether some adolescents express more suicidality during ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.46.9.915Publication date: 01 September 1995
Pages919–921Although bioethical principles such as beneficence, nonmaleficence, and autonomy increasingly guide clinical decision making, in good clinical practice none of these principles is absolute. The authors describe how clinical and ethical issues interact in ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.46.9.919Publication date: 01 September 1995
Pages922–926OBJECTIVE: This study assessed the relationship between homelessness and specific quality-of-life problems for persons with severe and persistent mental illness. METHODS: The objective and subjective quality of life of 106 homeless persons with severe ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.46.9.922Publication date: 01 September 1995
Pages926–931Important and common relational conditions, such as severe couple dysfunction and family violence involving child or elder abuse, have been omitted from DSM-IV, the authors believe. They argue that such conditions can exist independently of severe ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.46.9.926Publication date: 01 September 1995
Pages932–937OBJECTIVES: The study examined the prevalence of substance use, psychiatric, and medical disorders in female veterans discharged from VA hospitals. METHODS: The VA discharge abstract database was used to identify women discharged in fiscal year 1991 who ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.46.9.932Publication date: 01 September 1995
Pages938–940Gender differences in diagnosis, demographic and family characteristics, and trauma histories among psychiatric outpatients at a Veterans Affairs clinic were examined. Among the 51 women and 46 men, significantly more women had affective disorders and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.46.9.938Publication date: 01 September 1995
Pages940–942Twenty parents of mentally retarded children and 20 parents of children with neurological impairments were interviewed to determine their levels of psychiatric symptoms and of subjective and objective burden associated with care for their disabled child. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.46.9.940Publication date: 01 September 1995
Pages943–945This study examined the relationship between follow-up and rehospitalization of inpatients discharged from treatment in two divisions of a health maintenance organization (HMO). Among 580 patients discharged, two-thirds made a follow-up visit within 30 ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.46.9.943Publication date: 01 September 1995
Pages945–947A total of 771 professionals employed in alcohol treatment programs in Nebraska were surveyed to determine whether their personal alcohol and tobacco use status or characteristics of their treatment programs were related to whether they provided nicotine ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.46.9.945Publication date: 01 September 1995
Pages948–950The effectiveness of a psychosocial rehabilitation program in preventing further hospitalization among a group of hospitalized severely mentally ill homeless persons in Israel was evaluated. The program includes inpatient and community residential phases ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.46.9.948Article
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