Psychiatric Services
- Volume 48
- Number 9
- September 1997
Publication date: 01 September 1997
Pages1147–1152OBJECTIVE: The study examined the financial performance of a managed behavioral health care organization responsible for mental health and substance abuse services under the Massachusetts Medicaid program. Financial performance is considered in light of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.48.9.1147Publication date: 01 September 1997
Pages1153–1159OBJECTIVE: The effects of risperidone treatment on health care utilization and treatment costs were examined among patients with treatment-refractory schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder. METHODS: Data from the Santa Clara County Mental Health ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.48.9.1153Publication date: 01 September 1997
Pages1160–1163OBJECTIVE: The study examined the responses of paraprofessional mental health direct-care staff to hypothetical ethics violations in the care of persons with mental illness. METHODS: Eighty-five paraprofessionals in a medium-sized Midwestern psychiatric ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.48.9.1160Publication date: 01 September 1997
Pages1168–1176OBJECTIVE: To help clinicians enhance the safety of the public, hospital staff, and patients and improve patient management, this article briefly reviews recent empirical work on appraisal of the risk of violence and the management of violent individuals. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.48.9.1168Publication date: 01 September 1997
Pages1177–1180OBJECTIVE: The study evaluated the Nurses' Observational Scale for Inpatient Evaluation (NOSIE), the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS), the Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE), and other measures as predictors of assaults that occurred during ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.48.9.1177Publication date: 01 September 1997
Pages1181–1185OBJECTIVE: This study examined the relationship between violence and substance abuse among patients with chronic mental illness living in the community. METHODS: All referrals over a one-year period to an urban assertive community treatment team were ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.48.9.1181Publication date: 01 September 1997
Pages1186–1190OBJECTIVE: This study of a public-hospital-based drop-in group for women who were victims of domestic violence sought to determine whether the group attracted clients from the target population of patients in the medical system, to identify ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.48.9.1186Traumatic reactions as predictors of posttraumatic stress six months after the Oklahoma City bombing
Publication date: 01 September 1997
Pages1191–1194OBJECTIVE: This study attempted to identify remembered reactions of Oklahoma City residents at the time of the April 1995 terrorist bombing that predicted later development of posttraumatic stress symptoms. METHODS: Eighty-six adults who sought help for ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.48.9.1191Publication date: 01 September 1997
Pages1195–1197This study contrasted six subscales of the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS) to determine their sensitivity to psychosocial treatment outcome. An expanded version of the BPRS was administered to 216 clients on admission to a day program. The subscale ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.48.9.1195Publication date: 01 September 1997
Pages1197–1198The paper presents several mnemonics to assist clinicians in recalling DSM-IV diagnostic criteria for personality disorders. The mnemonics are acronyms, and each letter is associated with a specific criterion. Each acronym reflects a facet of the related ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.48.9.1197Publication date: 01 September 1997
Pages1199–1200To assess contraceptive use and child-rearing outcomes, a semistructured interview was given to 92 male psychiatric outpatients and to 92 matched control subjects without major mental illness. Compared with the control subjects, the patients were ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.48.9.1199Publication date: 01 September 1997
Pages1201–1203To improve suicide prevention during hospitalization, this study examined risk factors for parasuicide among psychiatric inpatients. A group of 58 psychiatric inpatients (19 with schizophrenia, 20 with depression, and 19 with other diagnoses) who ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.48.9.1201Article
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