Psychiatric Services

In an item about the 1996 Institute on Psychiatric Services on page 545 of the May issue, it was erroneously stated that this will be the first year in which the institute will offer continuing education credit for disciplines other than psychiatry. Such ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.47.7.684

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Treatments provided to psychiatric patients

Publication date: 01 July 1996

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Re-engineering the state hospital to promote rehabilitation and recovery

Publication date: 01 July 1996

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Case management and managed care: investing in recovery

Publication date: 01 July 1996

Pages699–701https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.47.7.699

Reduced substance-abuse-related health care costs among voluntary participants in Alcoholics Anonymous

Publication date: 01 July 1996

Pages709–713

OBJECTIVE: This study examined differences in outcomes, alcoholism treatment utilization, and costs between alcoholic individuals with no previous treatment history who chose to attend Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) or to seek help from a professional ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.47.7.709

Differences in social environment between inpatient and day hospital- crisis respite settings

Publication date: 01 July 1996

Pages714–720

OBJECTIVE: The study compared the social environment of a conventional psychiatric inpatient setting with that of a combined acute day hospital and crisis respite program that functions as an alternative to hospitalization for patients judged appropriate ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.47.7.714

The importance of ward atmosphere in inpatient treatment of schizophrenia on short-term units

Publication date: 01 July 1996

Pages721–726

OBJECTIVE: The reorganization in 1981 of a general hospital psychiatric ward in Oslo, Norway, to achieve a more suitable treatment milieu for patients with schizophrenia resulted in a change in patients' perceptions of the ward atmosphere. Reduced group ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.47.7.721

Incidence of and risk factors for delirium among psychiatric inpatients

Publication date: 01 July 1996

Pages727–730

OBJECTIVE: The presence and effects of delirium among psychiatric patients are not well understood. This study investigated incidence rates and risk factors for delirium among hospitalized psychiatric patients. METHODS: The charts of 199 patients admitted ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.47.7.727

Effects of substance abuse on housing stability of homeless mentally Ill persons in supported housing

Publication date: 01 July 1996

Pages731–736

OBJECTIVE: The study examined two-year housing outcomes of homeless mentally ill clients who took part in an experimental investigation of supported housing. The relationships between housing outcomes and client characteristics, such as gender, ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.47.7.731

Characteristics and activities of case managers in the RWJ Foundation Program on chronic mental illness

Publication date: 01 July 1996

Pages737–743

OBJECTIVE: Case management was seen as the major strategy for integrating mental health, housing, and social supports for clients in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Program on Chronic Mental Illness, a five-year multisite demonstration project designed ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.47.7.737

A comparison of two levels of family-aided assertive community treatment

Publication date: 01 July 1996

Pages744–750

OBJECTIVE: The study examined differences in outcomes for patients with schizophrenic disorders who were receiving assertive community treatment based on whether their families were involved in their treatment more intensively in psychoeducational ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.47.7.744

Total quality management and the reduction of inpatient violence and costs in a forensic psychiatric hospital

Publication date: 01 July 1996

Pages751–754

OBJECTIVE: The study evaluated the effects of using the principles of total quality management (TQM) to reduce aggressive incidents in the dining rooms at a state forensic hospital. METHODS: A ten-member, multidisciplinary team, which included a patient ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.47.7.751

Interventions among adolescents who were violently injured and those who attempted suicide

Publication date: 01 July 1996

Pages755–757

To examine responses to the psychological needs of adolescent injury victims, the records of all adolescents hospitalized at an urban trauma center during a one-year period for injury by gunshots, stabbings, and physical assaults (N = 59) were compared ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.47.7.755

Assertive community treatment of severe mental illness: a Canadian experience

Publication date: 01 July 1996

Pages757–759

The study assessed one-year outcomes for 110 clients with serious mental illness who were randomly assigned to an assertive community rehabilitation program that provides psychiatric rehabilitation services in community settings or to hospital-based ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.47.7.757

A survey of preferred terms for users of mental health services

Publication date: 01 July 1996

Pages760–761

To determine how users of mental health services would like to be addressed by professionals, a survey of 302 persons participating in a variety of inpatient and outpatient psychiatric programs was conducted. Forty-five percent of the sample preferred the ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.47.7.760

Epilepsy, aggression, and criminal responsibility

Publication date: 01 July 1996

Pages762–763

Although epilepsy-related violence can occur, accounts of criminal behavior caused by epilepsy remain rare and unconvincing. The authors describe a case of apparent postictal aggression, resulting in felony assault charges, by a patient who had nocturnal ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.47.7.762