Psychiatric Services

Introduction by the column editors: Rehabilitation of persons with severe mental disorders is of necessity a biobehavioral endeavor, with control and stabilization of symptoms the foundation for helping individuals achieve their personal goals through ...

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Are Sex Offenders Treatable? A Research Overview

Publication date: 01 March 1999

Pages349–361

OBJECTIVE: Recent legislation in several states providing for civil commitment and preventive detention of sexually violent persons has stirred legal, clinical, and public policy controversies. The mandate for psychiatric evaluation and treatment has an ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.50.3.349

Issues in the Psychiatric Treatment of African Americans

Publication date: 01 March 1999

Pages362–368

African Americans constitute about 12 percent of the United States population. Sixty percent of African Americans live in urban areas, and 25 percent have incomes below the poverty level. Issues in the psychiatric assessment and evaluation of African-...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.50.3.362

Special Series on the Psychiatric Needs of Nonwhite Populations

Carl C. Bell, M.D.

Publication date: 01 March 1999

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Helping Parental Caregivers and Mental Health Consumers Cope With Parental Aging and Loss

Publication date: 01 March 1999

Pages369–375

As persons with severe and persistent mental illness age, large numbers continue to live with their elderly parents or receive substantial social and economic support from them. Prospective studies suggest that when caregivers die, individuals with mental ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.50.3.369

Personality and Clinical Predictors of Recurrence of Depression

Publication date: 01 March 1999

Pages376–380

OBJECTIVE: To help clinicians more accurately predict outcomes of treatment for depression, variables associated with recurrence of depression in the year after treatment were examined in a group of patients who completed treatment for an index episode of ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.50.3.376

Assaults by Patients on Psychiatric Residents: A Survey and Training Recommendations

Publication date: 01 March 1999

Pages381–383

OBJECTIVE: A survey was conducted to determine the frequency and severity of assaults on psychiatric residents and the level of training they receive in the management of violent patients.METHODS: In early 1997 a survey was randomly distributed to 2,553 ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.50.3.381

A Survey of Assaultive Behavior in Veterans Health Administration Facilities

Publication date: 01 March 1999

Pages384–389

OBJECTIVE: To more clearly define the scope and impact of violence in health care facilities, national data on assaults in VA medical centers and freestanding clinics were examined. METHODS: A survey was distributed to all VA medical centers and ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.50.3.384

Repeated Assaults by Patients in VA Hospital and Clinic Settings

Publication date: 01 March 1999

Pages390–394

OBJECTIVE: The study aim was to determine the prevalence of repeated assaults on staff and other patients and characteristics of patients who commit repeated assaults in the Veterans Health Administration of the Department of Veterans Affairs. METHODS: ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.50.3.390

An Ethnographic Study of the Meaning of Continuity of Care in Mental Health Services

Publication date: 01 March 1999

Pages395–400

OBJECTIVE: As a step toward developing a standardized measure of continuity of care for mental health services research, the study sought to identify the interpersonal processes of giving and receiving day-to-day services through which individual ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.50.3.395

Comparison of Outcomes of Acute Care in Short-Term Residential Treatment and Psychiatric Hospital Settings

Publication date: 01 March 1999

Pages401–406

OBJECTIVE: The study compared the demographic and diagnostic characteristics of clients and the outcomes of treatment in five short-term acute residential treatment programs and two acute hospital-based psychiatric programs. METHODS: A total of 368 ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.50.3.401

Brief Report

Anxiety Disorders Among African-American and White Primary Medical Care Patients

Publication date: 01 March 1999

Pages407–409

The prevalence of current anxiety disorders and associated clinical patterns was examined in a sample of 125 African American and 120 white primary medical care patients between ages 18 and 64. Patients who indicated they had at least one mood or anxiety ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.50.3.407

Characteristics of Nonresponders to a Patient Satisfaction Survey at Discharge From Psychiatric Hospitals

Publication date: 01 March 1999

Pages410–412

The study compared the demographic and clinical characteristics of patients treated in the 31 psychiatric hospitals in Japan who did and did not return a satisfaction survey at discharge. Of the 471 patients discharged in a one-month period, 364 agreed to ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.50.3.410

Quality-of-Life Changes Among Patients With Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder in a Partial Hospitalization Program

Publication date: 01 March 1999

Pages412–414

Thirty treatment-resistant patients with a primary DSM-IV diagnosis of obsessive-compulsive disorder were assessed at admission to and discharge from a partial hospitalization program to determine whether improvement in symptoms of the disorder was ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.50.3.412

Open Forum

Physician Service Networks and the Future for Psychiatrists

Robert K. Schreter, M.D.

Publication date: 01 March 1999

Pages415–416

Physicians are responding to payers' demand for one-stop shopping and providers' desire for increased autonomy by creating physician service networks. These provider-owned and -operated delivery systems offer psychiatrists a model for creating their own ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.50.3.415