Psychiatric Services
- Volume 48
- Number 1
- January 1997
Publication date: 01 January 1997
Pages59–64OBJECTIVE: The study examined the impact of identifying and treating depression among patients who had a history of high medical expenditures. Effects on service use, disability, and quality of life were measured. METHODS: A total of 786 high users of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.48.1.59Publication date: 01 January 1997
Pages65–70OBJECTIVE: Mental health service use and costs for nondisabled children and adolescents in the Medicaid programs of Michigan and Tennessee were examined to improve understanding of patterns of service use in this population. METHODS: Data from the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.48.1.65Publication date: 01 January 1997
Pages71–75OBJECTIVE: The Health Plan Employer Data and Information Set (HEDIS) is the most widely used "report card" system comparing health care plans across different dimensions of performance. HEDIS uses only one measure of the quality of behavioral health care-...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.48.1.71Publication date: 01 January 1997
Pages76–81OBJECTIVE: This report details an extension of the use of psychoeducational workshops with psychiatric patients and their families to families of elderly patients with recurrent unipolar late- life depression. METHODS: Subjects were 132 participants in a ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.48.1.76Publication date: 01 January 1997
Pages82–85OBJECTIVE: Attitudes about medication and factors affecting medication compliance were investigated in a sample of 148 psychiatric patients. METHODS: Structured interviews assessed attitudes about medication, history of compliance, and other relevant ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.48.1.82Publication date: 01 January 1997
Pages86–90The influence of culture on psychiatric diagnostic assessments remains controversial. The authors outline differences between the emic approach to assessment, which is informed by ethnographic concepts of the centrality of culture in shaping the psyche ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.48.1.86Publication date: 01 January 1997
Pages91–92The authors present a model of inpatient community meetings conducted as large-group interpretive psychotherapy. The model focuses on the examination of relationships between patients and staff in the here-and- now and the patient group's maladaptive ways ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.48.1.91Publication date: 01 January 1997
Pages93–94The role of the community meeting on the inpatient psychiatric unit has been continuously transformed by the radical shifts in the practice of inpatient psychiatry over the past 40 years. The current clinical climate of extremely shortened lengths of stay ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.48.1.93Publication date: 01 January 1997
Pages95–97The study used the United Parkinson's Disease Scale to compare parkinsonian signs and symptoms among 19 patients in long-term neuroleptic therapy who had a history of cocaine abuse with those among 24 similar patients with no history of cocaine use. There ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.48.1.95Publication date: 01 January 1997
Pages97–99The study examined therapists' accuracy in predicting the length of individual outpatient psychotherapy for 109 clients and attempted to identify variables associated with predicted and actual treatment lengths. The mean predicted treatment length (9.7 ...
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Publication date: 01 January 1997
Page99The affiliation of J. Arturo Silva, M.D., co-author of the letter entitled "Disability Payments and Drug Abuse" in the November 1996 issue (page 1266), was incorrect. Dr. Silva is affiliated with the psychiatry service at the South Texas Veterans ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.48.1.99Publication date: 01 January 1997
Pages100–102Among 136 adults with mental illness and mental retardation who were consecutively treated at a developmental disabilities clinic, 25 reported that they currently smoked cigarettes. Among those with mild and borderline retardation, smoking rates were 30 ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.48.1.100Publication date: 01 January 1997
Pages102–104Acute treatment records of all medical and surgical patients evacuated to Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C., from the Persian Gulf theater (N = 161) were examined to better understand the relationship of injury to psychiatric symptoms. A ...
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Publication date: 01 January 1997
Page119An incorrect telephone number was listed for the American Psychiatric Association's AIDS Project in the November 1996 issue (page 1282). The correct number is 202-682-6143. E-mail should be sent to [email protected]. In the December 1996 People & Places (...
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