Psychiatric Services
- Volume 47
- Number 8
- August 1996
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Publication date: 01 August 1996
Pages825–831OBJECTIVE: Data from a 1993 survey of families in the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI) were analyzed to examine services used by consumers and families' perceptions of the services' value. Data from 1993 and 1976 were compared to document ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.47.8.825Publication date: 01 August 1996
Pages832–836OBJECTIVE: A recent review by the United States Secret Service of cases involving threats against the President indicated that about 50 percent of subjects had received mental health care. However, only 12 percent of referrals for investigation came from ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.47.8.832Publication date: 01 August 1996
Pages837–841OBJECTIVE: States finance some community-based mental health services through purchase-of-service contracts. The study examined ways in which six states monitor these contracts. METHODS: Data were gathered during site visits to Massachusetts, Michigan, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.47.8.837Publication date: 01 August 1996
Pages842–847OBJECTIVE: Given the prevalence of substance abuse among persons with psychiatric disorders, substance use assessment should be an integral component of mental health evaluations. This study examined the validity of a set of two 5-point rating scales ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.47.8.842Publication date: 01 August 1996
Pages848–852OBJECTIVE: The purpose of the study was to determine predictors of missed appointments for psychiatric consultations among patients in a general medical clinic. METHODS: The charts of 180 patients consecutively referred for psychiatric consultations at a ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.47.8.848Publication date: 01 August 1996
Pages853–858OBJECTIVE: The study examined the effect of medication noncompliance and substance abuse on symptoms of schizophrenia. METHODS: Short-term inpatients with a diagnosis of schizophrenia were enrolled in a longitudinal outcomes study and continued to receive ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.47.8.853Publication date: 01 August 1996
Pages859–863OBJECTIVE: The safety of suicidal patients is expected to be maintained during hospitalization. This study surveyed a sample of adult inpatient psychiatric units in general hospitals across the United States about their use of various levels of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.47.8.859Publication date: 01 August 1996
Pages864–866The study examined the concurrent validity of the revised Global Assessment of Functioning (GAF) scale, which is highly similar to the Social and Occupational Functioning Assessment Scale (SOFAS) in DSM-IV and which is designed to measure patients' ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.47.8.864Publication date: 01 August 1996
Pages866–868The study examined whether state hospitals in operation before deinstitutionalization still carry vestiges of older models of psychiatric care. Using a national database, the authors compared 166 state hospitals built before 1949 with 80 state hospitals ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.47.8.866Publication date: 01 August 1996
Pages869–871The effects of prohibiting cigarette smoking on the behavior of patients on a 25-bed psychiatric inpatient unit were assessed immediately after implementation of a smoking ban and two years later. No major behavioral disruptions were observed after the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.47.8.869Characteristics and six-month outcome of patients who use suicide threats to seek hospital admission
Publication date: 01 August 1996
Pages871–873Retrospective review of patients' charts and other records was used to collect data on diagnoses, psychosocial characteristics, and subsequent suicide attempts of 45 patients who made contingent suicide threats, defined as threatened suicide or ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.47.8.871Publication date: 01 August 1996
Pages874–875The author proposes three models for the future of psychiatry. The public health psychiatry model is rooted in psychiatry's participation in community mental health care for the past 50 years. It emphasizes ideological similarities between community ...
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