Psychiatric Services
- Volume 47
- Number 12
- December 1996
Article
Publication date: 01 December 1996
Pages1337–1343OBJECTIVE: In a three-year controlled study, two California integrated service agency demonstration programs that combined structural and program reforms were tested to see if they produced improved outcomes for a cross-section of clients with severe and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.47.12.1337Publication date: 01 December 1996
Pages1344–1350OBJECTIVE: The study evaluated the impact of Medicaid managed care on decision making during emergency mental health screening and the outcomes of such screening for children and adolescents. METHODS: Data on client attributes and on system ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.47.12.1344Publication date: 01 December 1996
Pages1351–1355In the last few years, the British National Health Service, local government social services departments, the welfare benefits system, and the organization of primary health care in the United Kingdom have undergone major reforms that have had significant ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.47.12.1351Publication date: 01 December 1996
Pages1356–1363OBJECTIVES: To fuel advocacy for improved health care for mentally ill persons, the authors reviewed the literature that describes excess mortality and underrecognition and undertreatment of comorbid medical conditions in this population. Barriers to ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.47.12.1356Publication date: 01 December 1996
Pages1364–1370The number of psychosocial interventions for relatives of adults with serious and persistent mental illness has increased significantly in recent years. Psychoeducational interventions combine educational and therapeutic objectives, offering didactic ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.47.12.1364Publication date: 01 December 1996
Pages1371–1377OBJECTIVE: Supported education programs provide assistance, preparation, and support to individuals with psychiatric disabilities who desire to pursue postsecondary education. To determine the extent to which "typical" clients with severe mental illness ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.47.12.1371Publication date: 01 December 1996
Pages1378–1381As capitation increasingly limits professional mental health services, self-help organizations may play an expanding role. Recovery, Incorporated, is an internationally active mental health self-help organization developed in the late 1930s by Abraham A. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.47.12.1378Effects of switching inpatients with treatment-resistant schizophrenia from clozapine to risperidone
Publication date: 01 December 1996
Pages1382–1384A prospective, open-label study in a 400-bed state psychiatric hospital evaluated change in therapeutic response among ten patients with treatment-resistant schizophrenia who were switched from clozapine to risperidone. Drug effects were examined before ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.47.12.1382Publication date: 01 December 1996
Pages1385–1387Fifty-three long-term psychiatric outpatients at two clinics in Montreal were surveyed about their knowledge of the psychotropic medications they took and about their opinions of the quality of information they had received about medications. Most ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.47.12.1385Publication date: 01 December 1996
Pages1387–1389Oregon is one of three states that allows persons to prepare a legal document-and advance directive-to stipulate the mental health treatment they wish to receive should they lose their decision-making capacity. An informal one-page questionnaire on the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.47.12.1387Publication date: 01 December 1996
Pages1390–1391To use staff resources more efficiently, a community mental health center in South Carolina initiated an eight-session modular psychoeducational and group therapy program with a classroom format. Groups were composed of three to 12 patients with the same ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.47.12.1390Article
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