Psychiatric Services
- Volume 47
- Number 2
- February 1996
Publication date: 01 February 1996
Pages147–151OBJECTIVE: The study documented sources and amounts of income among homeless adults with major mental or substance use disorders. It examined whether income varied by diagnostic group and whether those who received case management would be more likely to ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.47.2.147Publication date: 01 February 1996
Pages152–158OBJECTIVE: The study examined patterns of mental health service use among 112 formerly homeless mentally ill adults to determine whether clients in a staffed group living situation would need fewer types of services or lesser amounts of some services than ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.47.2.152Publication date: 01 February 1996
Pages159–164OBJECTIVE: Clinicians should have information about patients' sexual abuse history as early as possible, because a history of sexual abuse may affect psychiatric patients' presentation of symptoms and response to treatment. The authors surveyed a ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.47.2.159Publication date: 01 February 1996
Pages165–169OBJECTIVE: A growing awareness of the sequelae of trauma has prompted clinical and administrative mandates that psychiatric assessments must include inquiry about whether patients have experienced trauma or abuse. This study was designed to assess how a ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.47.2.165Publication date: 01 February 1996
Pages170–174OBJECTIVE: The study examined the effectiveness of a partial hospital treatment program combining behavioral therapy, medication, and psychosocial intervention for severe and treatment-resistant obsessive- compulsive disorder. METHODS: A total of 58 ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.47.2.170Publication date: 01 February 1996
Pages175–180OBJECTIVE: Client outcomes for the first year of a three-year study were measured in two integrated service agencies (ISAs) for severely mentally ill persons to test the effectiveness of a model combining financing reform (consolidated funding and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.47.2.175Publication date: 01 February 1996
Pages181–185OBJECTIVE: To increase understanding of HIV infection risk among patients with severe mental illness, the study sought to identify predictors of injection drug use among patients who did not have a primary substance use disorder. METHODS: A total of 192 ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.47.2.181Publication date: 01 February 1996
Pages186–188Thirty adult women survivors of childhood sexual abuse who believed they were functioning well were selected through advertisements in local newspapers and presentations at an incest-survivor support group. Subjects were assessed by a battery of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.47.2.186Publication date: 01 February 1996
Pages189–191Eighty-six female and 34 male psychiatric outpatients completed a self- report questionnaire that retrospectively assessed their history of physical and sexual abuse and assault. Seventy percent reported an abusive experience in childhood or adulthood. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.47.2.189Publication date: 01 February 1996
Pages192–194The authors describe a six-month training module in public psychiatry developed in 1991 at the University of Miami Medical School. The module is centered on weekly intensive site visits to a range of community and advocacy programs, including the state ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.47.2.192Publication date: 01 February 1996
Pages194–196The educational levels of 57 middle-aged and elderly persons were compared with their reading levels as assessed by the Wide Range Achievement Test-Reading. Participants were recruited from mental health and community settings in a predominantly black ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.47.2.194Publication date: 01 February 1996
Pages196–198To increase knowledge of homeless women in Britain, 49 female residents of two hostels were interviewed. The median age was 31 years, two- thirds had never married, and nearly three-fourths were born in England. When the sample was divided into younger ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.47.2.196Article
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