Psychiatric Services
- Volume 49
- Number 2
- February 1998
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Publication date: 01 February 1998
Pages191–195The authors describe the development and implementation of an outcomes management system designed to measure outcomes and processes of care for public mental health consumers in Arkansas. The public-academic project was implemented in 1995 and is based on ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.49.2.191Publication date: 01 February 1998
Pages196–201OBJECTIVE: The authors reviewed research on medication compliance in psychiatric treatment and compared compliance rates with compliance rates in treatment of physical disorders. METHODS: MEDLINE was used to locate reports in the literature on medication ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.49.2.196Publication date: 01 February 1998
Pages202–206OBJECTIVE: This study examined the nature of questions about previous mental illness, physical illness, and substance abuse asked on applications for state medical licensure, partly to determine if questions focused more appropriately on any current, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.49.2.202Publication date: 01 February 1998
Pages207–212OBJECTIVE: The study examined the efficacy of critical incident stress debriefing in ameliorating the impact of posttraumatic stress on direct care psychiatric workers after a traumatic event at work. METHODS: Sixty-three direct care workers from two ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.49.2.207Publication date: 01 February 1998
Pages213–217The literature on group therapies for women with histories of childhood sexual abuse has focused on outpatient treatments. A model of group treatment for inpatients and partial hospital patients is described here. "Women's Safety in Recovery" is a first-...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.49.2.213Publication date: 01 February 1998
Pages218–220OBJECTIVE: The study examined the extent to which delusions motivate violent behavior among psychiatric patients with a history of delusions. METHODS: Fifty-four psychiatric inpatients identified by hospital staff as having delusions were interviewed ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.49.2.218Publication date: 01 February 1998
Pages221–224OBJECTIVE: The association between violent behavior and low serum total cholesterol levels was examined in a psychiatric inpatient population with diverse diagnoses. METHODS: The study used a case-control design to compare the cholesterol levels of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.49.2.221Publication date: 01 February 1998
Pages225–228This paper provides a general description of child advocacy teams, which are formed in difficult child custody or abuse and neglect cases. They are created when a judge asks that a team assist in determining the child's psychological status and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.49.2.225Publication date: 01 February 1998
Pages229–233OBJECTIVE: This literature review examined data on the effects of nursing home reform initiated by the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1987 (OBRA), with particular attention to use of antipsychotic medications, use of physical restraints, and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.49.2.229Brief Report
Publication date: 01 February 1998
Pages234–235A computed tomography (CT) scan of the head is often routine for patients with new-onset psychosis to rule out somatic causes. Charts of 127 such patients admitted to a major military medical center were examined. Most patients were young and otherwise in ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.49.2.234Publication date: 01 February 1998
Pages236–238Historically the divisions between the mental health and substance abuse fields have been so deep that attempts to provide coordinated treatment across service sectors for people with dual diagnoses of psychiatric disorder and substance use disorder have ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.49.2.236Publication date: 01 February 1998
Pages239–240This study examined ethnic differences in response to antidepressant treatment. One hundred eighteen depressed HIV-positive patients entered an eight-week controlled trial of fluoxetine. Nineteen percent were black and 14 percent were Latino; the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.49.2.239Publication date: 01 February 1998
Pages241–243A program to address the psychological sequelae of patients' assaults on psychiatric health care staff—the Assaulted Staff Action Program (ASAP)—was previously shown to be associated with a notable decline in the assault rate at the state hospital where ...
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