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Psychiatric Services

  • Volume 48
  • Number 9
  • September 1997

Publication date: 01 September 1997

Pages1147–1152

OBJECTIVE: 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.48.9.1147

Publication date: 01 September 1997

Pages1153–1159

OBJECTIVE: 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.48.9.1153

Publication date: 01 September 1997

Pages1160–1163

OBJECTIVE: 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.48.9.1160

Publication date: 01 September 1997

Pages1168–1176

OBJECTIVE: 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.48.9.1168

Publication date: 01 September 1997

Pages1177–1180

OBJECTIVE: 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.48.9.1177

Publication date: 01 September 1997

Pages1181–1185

OBJECTIVE: 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.48.9.1181

Publication date: 01 September 1997

Pages1186–1190

OBJECTIVE: 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.48.9.1186

Publication date: 01 September 1997

Pages1191–1194

OBJECTIVE: 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.48.9.1191

Publication date: 01 September 1997

Pages1195–1197

This 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.48.9.1195

Publication date: 01 September 1997

Pages1197–1198

The 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.48.9.1197

Publication date: 01 September 1997

Pages1199–1200

To 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.48.9.1199

Publication date: 01 September 1997

Pages1201–1203

To 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.48.9.1201

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