Psychiatric Services
- Volume 47
- Number 4
- April 1996
Publication date: 01 April 1996
Pages371–375In developed nations, interest in mental health services research is increasing, which parallels an increased appreciation of the social and financial costs of mental illness and a growing need to identify cost- effective patterns of care. This paper ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.47.4.371Publication date: 01 April 1996
Pages376–380OBJECTIVE. The study examined differences in the use of mental health services by persons living in different types of households. METHODS. Data were obtained from the Epidemiologic Catchment Area (ECA) survey, a multistage probability sampling procedure ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.47.4.376Publication date: 01 April 1996
Pages381–386OBJECTIVE. Most homeless persons who have received services for serious mental illness want to live on their own, but mental health professionals usually recommend group housing. This study examined the relationship between the types of residential ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.47.4.381Publication date: 01 April 1996
Pages387–391Employee assistance programs have developed from alcoholism assessment and referral centers to specialized behavioral health programs. Comprehensive employee assistance programs are defined by six major components: identification of problems based on job ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.47.4.387Publication date: 01 April 1996
Pages392–397OBJECTIVE. The study examined whether participants with mental illness in the federal Section 8 housing subsidy program settle in neighborhoods different from those of Section 8 participants without mental illness. The nature of these differences and the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.47.4.392Publication date: 01 April 1996
Pages398–402OBJECTIVE. The mortality rate of discharged psychiatric inpatients has long been known to be higher than that of persons in the general population. This study assessed the effectiveness of outreach case management in reducing the mortality rate of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.47.4.398Publication date: 01 April 1996
Pages403–406OBJECTIVE. Data on persons known to have committed homicide during a 13- year period were studied to determine factors associated with increased risk of repeating homicide. METHODS. Between 1981 and 1993, a total of 1,649 homicides were committed in ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.47.4.403Publication date: 01 April 1996
Pages407–412In 1989 Johns Hopkins Hospital modified the Meyer 3 short-stay psychiatric service, which has allowed the hospital to comply with state requirements to control inpatient costs and has increased revenues. Strategies and organizational changes that were ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.47.4.407Publication date: 01 April 1996
Pages413–415Housing recommendations made by two clinicians for 86 homeless mentally ill consumers were compared with the consumers' own housing preferences. Clinicians recommended independent living much less often than did the consumers. The two groups varied less ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.47.4.413Publication date: 01 April 1996
Pages415–417Cognitive adaptation training is a treatment approach designed to alter the physical environment of patients with schizophrenia to compensate for cognitive deficits and improve adaptive function. A wide range of environmental manipulations such as labels, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.47.4.415Publication date: 01 April 1996
Pages418–420Changes in health care funding have greatly enhanced the value of consultation-liaison services to their parent hospitals. This paper reviews representative studies showing that consultation-liaison interventions improve patient care, enhance patients' ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.47.4.418Publication date: 01 April 1996
Pages421–423Forty-two acute inpatients with schizophrenia, 23 of whom had a past or current alcohol use disorder, were given a structured interview that focused on reasons for alcohol use and changes in perceived effects of alcohol on psychiatric symptoms from the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.47.4.421Publication date: 01 April 1996
Pages424–426Psychological symptoms of 21 therapists who provided counseling to individuals affected by the crash of a commercial airliner were compared with those of 20 therapists from the same mental health center who did not participate in the disaster relief ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.47.4.424Publication date: 01 April 1996
Pages426–429Structured diagnostic interviews were used to determine DSM-III-R axis I and II diagnoses among 136 female psychiatric inpatients. To distinguish comorbidity of eating disorders with axis I and II disorders from simple diagnostic overlap, the frequency ...
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