Psychiatric Services
- Volume 50
- Number 12
- December 1999
Taking Issue
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Departments
Historical Note
Publication date: 01 December 1999
Page1563Editor's Note: On the masthead page of every issue, under the Taking Issue commentary, we state that this journal was established in 1950 by Daniel Blain, M.D. Next month we begin our year-long 50th anniversary celebration with a series of historical ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.50.12.1563Our Reviewers
Article
Publication date: 01 December 1999
Pages1571–1576As the debate over managed care continues, measuring quality has increasingly become a focus in health care. One approach to measuring quality is the use of a scorecard, which summarizes a critical set of indicators that measure the quality of care. The ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.50.12.1571Publication date: 01 December 1999
Pages1577–1583OBJECTIVE: Treatment approaches used in community residential facilities for patients with substance use disorders were identified, and patients' participation in treatment and case-mix-adjusted one-year outcomes for substance use, symptoms, and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.50.12.1577Publication date: 01 December 1999
Pages1584–1590OBJECTIVE: Although poor prenatal care is detrimental to maternal and infant health, few studies have assessed the adequacy of prenatal care among women with psychiatric diagnoses. This investigation examined the association between chart-recorded ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.50.12.1584Publication date: 01 December 1999
Pages1591–1595OBJECTIVE: The purposes of the study were to document the administrative roles that child psychiatrists play in the development of policy in state departments of mental health and to identify barriers to their participation. METHODS: A survey was sent to ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.50.12.1591Special Section on Mentally Ill Offenders
Publication date: 01 December 1999
Pages1597–1605OBJECTIVE: Rehospitalization and criminal recidivism were examined among a group of offenders with mental disorders adjudicated as not guilty by reason of insanity and mandated to receive treatment in a forensic psychiatric outpatient program as a ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.50.12.1597Publication date: 01 December 1999
Pages1606–1613OBJECTIVE: To explore the service needs of women in jail, the authors examined three pathways into prostitution: childhood sexual victimization, running away, and drug use. Studies typically have explored only one or two of these pathways, and the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.50.12.1606Publication date: 01 December 1999
Pages1614–1619OBJECTIVE: The paper describes initial results of collaboration between a mental health treatment program at a community mental health center in Baltimore and a probation officer of the U.S. federal prison system to serve the mental health needs of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.50.12.1614Publication date: 01 December 1999
Pages1620–1623For nearly 30 years jail diversion programs have had wide support as a way to prevent people with mental illnesses and substance use disorders from unnecessarily entering the criminal justice system by providing more appropriate community-based treatment. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.50.12.1620Publication date: 01 December 1999
Pages1624–1627During the last decade the planning of services for offenders with mental disorders in the United Kingdom has been geared toward diverting them from the criminal justice system to appropriate levels of psychiatric and social care. Although a seamless ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.50.12.1624Publication date: 01 December 1999
Pages1628–1630The prevalence of psychiatric disorders was examined in a sample of 204 pretrial jail detainees receiving standard drug treatment. More than half of the sample had at least one lifetime DSM-III-R axis I diagnosis, and the lifetime rates of serious mental ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.50.12.1628Brief Report
Publication date: 01 December 1999
Pages1631–1633Mental health services experts suggest that managed care diminishes the need for arbitrary benefit limits and consumer cost-sharing. Data from 577 health plans were used to test the hypotheses that health maintenance organizations (HMOs) and carve-out ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.50.12.1631Publication date: 01 December 1999
Pages1634–1636The charts of patients who received an initial assessment at a rural mental health center were reviewed to identify patient, system, and clinical characteristics that predicted return to the center for at least one treatment visit in the following three ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.50.12.1634Publication date: 01 December 1999
Pages1637–1638The use of physical restraints in 11 locked psychiatric wards in Warsaw, Poland, was examined in 1989 and 1996 to determine whether the implementation of the Mental Health Act in 1995 and other political transformations changed this psychiatric practice. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.50.12.1637Letter
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