Psychiatric Services
- Volume 47
- Number 11
- November 1996
Publication date: 01 November 1996
Pages1205–1211In 1992 Georgia embarked on an ambitious reform of its public mental health system. Regional mental health authorities were created with consumers and family members as decision makers. Reform legislation required that hospital and community funds be ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.47.11.1205Publication date: 01 November 1996
Pages1212–1215OBJECTIVE: The Tarasoff case and subsequent court decisions and legislation in many jurisdictions established a duty to protect the intended victims of patients who pose a serious threat of violence. An approach that has been legally sanctioned is to warn ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.47.11.1212Publication date: 01 November 1996
Pages1216–1222OBJECTIVES: The study examined the effect of adding two employment specialists to the staff of a community mental health center; their sole responsibility was to develop the skills and positive work attitudes that clients with severe mental illness need ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.47.11.1216Publication date: 01 November 1996
Pages1223–1226OBJECTIVE: The job preferences of adults with severe mental illness who were participating in supported employment programs were examined. METHODS: Data were collected on job preferences, attainment of competitive employment, job satisfaction, and job ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.47.11.1223Publication date: 01 November 1996
Pages1227–1232OBJECTIVE: This study proposes a model with five criteria for evaluating the effectiveness of intensive outpatient behavioral health care programs and applies this model to a brief partial hospital-crisis stabilization program. The five criteria are ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.47.11.1227Publication date: 01 November 1996
Pages1233–1238OBJECTIVE: State governments are exploring the potential of various forms of case management to control the costs of substance abuse treatment programs. This report describes an experimental program in one Iowa county in which clients are assessed and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.47.11.1233Publication date: 01 November 1996
Pages1239–1243OBJECTIVE: This study evaluated the impact of state legislation in Indiana mandating establishment of local coordinating committees to prevent inappropriate placement of children and youth with serious emotional disturbance out of the home and to ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.47.11.1239Publication date: 01 November 1996
Pages1244–1250OBJECTIVE: The relative effectiveness of two types of group therapy-the disease-and-recovery model and the cognitive-behavioral model-was examined in a public inpatient and outpatient setting with consumers who had a dual diagnosis of a personality ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.47.11.1244Publication date: 01 November 1996
Pages1251–1253The effects of outpatient civil commitment on community tenure and functioning were studied in a group of 20 patients with a history of recurrent hospitalizations, noncompliance with outpatient treatment, and good response to treatment. During the first ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.47.11.1251Publication date: 01 November 1996
Pages1253–1255To determine whether casual contact with former psychiatric patients changes public perceptions of and attitudes toward persons with mental illness, 100 residents of urban North London, England, were interviewed before and six months after a residential ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.47.11.1253Publication date: 01 November 1996
Pages1256–1258Differences in psychosocial functioning, symptoms, service use, and costs for 40 nonwhite consumers of mental health services and 92 white consumers were compared at baseline and six months in a controlled clinical trial of three dual diagnosis ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.47.11.1256Publication date: 01 November 1996
Pages1259–1261Managed care programs establish procedures to help their patients avoid use of psychiatric emergency services. To determine whether managed care patients who do visit the emergency service do so primarily for hospitalization and have briefer contacts with ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.47.11.1259Publication date: 01 November 1996
Pages1262–1264Federal regulations governing pharmacologic research require scientific proof of efficacy. Although these regulations are often interpreted to mean that a placebo-controlled trial is necessary, it is difficult to justify use of placebo controls when ...
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