Psychiatric Services
- Volume 47
- Number 10
- October 1996
Article
Publication date: 01 October 1996
Pages1071–1078OBJECTIVES: This analytical review is intended to update the author's earlier writings on the position of the state mental hospital within the spectrum of services for long-term mental patients and to provide perspective for the next generation of service ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.47.10.1071Publication date: 01 October 1996
Pages1079–1081OBJECTIVE: The authors document changes in state mental hospitals from 1970 to 1992 in four areas: the number of hospitals, the average daily census, expenditures, and number of full-time-equivalent staff. METHODS: Data examined were derived from ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.47.10.1079Publication date: 01 October 1996
Pages1082–1087OBJECTIVE: To understand the current and potential role of state hospitals in serving geriatric patients, national trends in the use of state mental hospitals by adults age 65 and older were examined. METHODS: State hospital use by older adults in the 50 ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.47.10.1082Publication date: 01 October 1996
Pages1088–1092OBJECTIVE: The study examined the level of community integration achieved by patients discharged from the state hospital into the community in compliance with a regionalization policy in Vermont that sought to reduce the need for central hospitalization ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.47.10.1088Publication date: 01 October 1996
Pages1093–1098A growing theoretical and practical body of knowledge recognizes the common clinical concerns of chronic psychiatric patients who are homosexual and promotes their affirmative inclusion in psychiatric programs for other persons with chronic mental ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.47.10.1093Publication date: 01 October 1996
Pages1099–1103OBJECTIVE: The study examined the effectiveness of the Community Re- Entry Program, a brief, time-limited skills training module designed to help acutely ill inpatients become engaged in community-based treatment programs. METHODS: Of 84 consecutive ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.47.10.1099Publication date: 01 October 1996
Pages1104–1107OBJECTIVE: The study examined characteristics associated with substance abuse among patients on a VA general inpatient psychiatry unit. METHODS: A total of 452 consecutive discharge summaries from a six- month period were examined for a recorded diagnosis ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.47.10.1104Article
Publication date: 01 October 1996
Pages1118–1120Risperidone, an atypical antipsychotic, was introduced into clinical use in New York State facilities in April 1994. In this chart review study, records were reviewed for the first 63 patients started on risperidone at the Bronx Psychiatric Center during ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.47.10.1118Publication date: 01 October 1996
Pages1120–1122In 1994 a 20-year retrospective study was conducted of 297 psychiatric patients admitted to an inpatient rehabilitation program in rural Ireland over a 15-year period (1974 to 1989). All patients were traced. Seventy-six percent had been discharged into ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.47.10.1120Publication date: 01 October 1996
Pages1123–1125At a maximum-security forensic hospital over a three-year period, 79 patients (35 percent of all patients) were involved in 157 staff injuries. Staff members' average postinjury absence from work was 85 days, at a cost equivalent to about 2 percent of the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.47.10.1123Publication date: 01 October 1996
Pages1125–1127Outcomes for 112 clients with severe mental disorders in a community mental health center that converted its rehabilitative day treatment program to a supported employment program were assessed during the year after the program conversion. The study ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.47.10.1125Article
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