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Psychiatric Services

  • Volume 48
  • Number 10
  • October 1997

Article

Publication date: 01 October 1997

Pages1273–1282

OBJECTIVE: Women with severe mental illness were surveyed to explore issues in living with mental illness, personal relationships, and professional relationships and health care. The topics were drawn from the literature on the psychology of women and ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.48.10.1273

Publication date: 01 October 1997

Pages1283–1288

OBJECTIVES: The study evaluated the relative impact of HIV risk reduction interventions for adults with severe mental illness living in the inner city. METHODS: A total of 104 chronically mentally ill men and women were interviewed to determine sexual ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.48.10.1283

Publication date: 01 October 1997

Pages1289–1296

OBJECTIVES: This study examined the impact of regulations established by the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1987 (OBRA-87) on prescriptions for psychotropic drugs, and on research on their use in nursing homes. METHODS: Data were collected on drugs ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.48.10.1289

Publication date: 01 October 1997

Pages1297–1306

OBJECTIVE: Two assertive community treatment teams were compared with a usual-care control condition based on their ability to engage and retain clients with serious and persistent mental illness in community- based mental health services. METHODS: ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.48.10.1297

Publication date: 01 October 1997

Pages1307–1310

OBJECTIVE: The study examined a 95-bed locked community facility (an institute for mental disease), one of 40 such facilities in California to which patients with increasingly difficult problems in management have been referred over the past few years as ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.48.10.1307

Publication date: 01 October 1997

Pages1311–1316

OBJECTIVE: This study sought to determine the impact of a formal screening program for substance use disorders among psychiatric inpatients. Both identification of these disorders and referrals to aftercare were measured. METHODS: A total of 193 patients ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.48.10.1311

Publication date: 01 October 1997

Pages1317–1322

OBJECTIVE: The objectives of this study were to develop a measure to assess patients' response to civil commitment, to test this measure on two groups of dually diagnosed patients (medically ill alcoholics and patients with dual mental and substance use ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.48.10.1317

Publication date: 01 October 1997

Pages1323–1327

OBJECTIVE: To make clinically relevant recommendations for electrocardiogram (ECG) testing among psychiatric patients, the study examined the practice of ordering ECGs for this population. METHODS: The records of 4,045 patients consecutively admitted for ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.48.10.1323

Publication date: 01 October 1997

Pages1328–1330

Ethnic and racial differences in the stigma associated with mental illness in the general population were examined through secondary analysis of data from a survey of a nationally representative sample (N = 1,468) on attitudes toward homeless and homeless ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.48.10.1328

Publication date: 01 October 1997

Pages1331–1333

Among 100 participants in a Department of Veterans Affairs domiciliary program for chronic mentally ill homeless veterans who were consecutively referred for psychiatric consultation, 81 who were not psychotic and did not have central nervous system ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.48.10.1331

Publication date: 01 October 1997

Pages1334–1335

The authors present three case vignettes in which inpatients with schizophrenia participated in psychotherapy sessions that included three phases: traditional verbal psychotherapy, computer-facilitated therapy, and recapitulation of the session. In the ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.48.10.1334

Publication date: 01 October 1997

Pages1336–1338

Staff who provide services for persons with severe mental illness often have pessimistic attitudes about adopting behavioral innovations for their programs. Thirty-five staff members in psychiatric residential programs participated in eight months of ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.48.10.1336

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