Psychiatric Services
- Volume 51
- Number 1
- January 2000
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Publication date: 01 January 2000
Pages19–29Introduction by the column editor: The last managed care column, in the October issue, began by noting that "behavioral health programs are changing at a dizzying pace" and then discussed mergers and acquisitions at the level of the organization. In this ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.51.1.19Departments
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Publication date: 01 January 2000
Pages41–67The last half-century of psychiatric services in the United States is examined through developments and trends reported in the 50 years of publication of Psychiatric Services. The journal, earlier named Mental Hospitals and then Hospital and Community ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.51.1.41Other Article
Publication date: 01 January 2000
Pages72–78Psychiatry's reliance on biological models has resulted increasingly in the social realm's being dismissed or trivialized. The author examines the adverse consequences of this situation for psychiatric research and practice and suggests methods for ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.51.1.72Publication date: 01 January 2000
Pages79–84OBJECTIVE: The study compared the characteristics of patients who participated in efficacy trials of medications for treatment of schizophrenia with those of the other patients in the clinical population from which the trial participants had been ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.51.1.79Publication date: 01 January 2000
Pages85–91OBJECTIVE: An interest exists in using patient outcome data to evaluate the performance of publicly financed mental health organizations. Because patients leave these organizations at a high rate, the impact of patient attrition on routinely collected ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.51.1.85Publication date: 01 January 2000
Pages92–95OBJECTIVE: The effectiveness of an overnight psychiatric observation program was evaluated. The program was designed to avoid unnecessary hospitalization of patients experiencing acute psychiatric crises. METHODS: Of 110 patients admitted to the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.51.1.92Publication date: 01 January 2000
Pages96–99Objectives: The prevalence of problem and gambling behavior, the average age of onset of gambling behavior, and the co-occurrence of gambling disorder with substance use were determined in the Louisiana student population grades 6 through 12. METHODS: A ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.51.1.96Publication date: 01 January 2000
Pages100–104Differences and similarities in homelessness in Amsterdam and New York City were examined, particularly in regard to persons most at risk for homelessness—those with mental illness and with substance abuse problems. The Netherlands is a welfare state ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.51.1.100Publication date: 01 January 2000
Pages105–110OBJECTIVE: Since the 1970s the number of women physicians has steadily increased and is expected to continue to climb into the next century. Psychiatry is a medical specialty that has been successful in attracting women. As more young women enter ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.51.1.105Brief Report
Publication date: 01 January 2000
Pages111–113The study examined assaultive behavior directed toward staff of community-based residential facilities by patients who had been discharged to these facilities from Massachusetts state psychiatric hospitals in the early 1990s. Observed rates of assault ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.51.1.111Publication date: 01 January 2000
Pages113–115Data from patients visiting an urban psychiatric emergency service in California were examined to document incidence and patterns of substance use and ethnic differences among users. A total of 392 patients were randomly assigned to receive a drug screen (...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.51.1.113Publication date: 01 January 2000
Pages116–118Longitudinal data from 4,331 homeless mentally ill clients at 18 sites participating in the Access to Community Care and Effective Services and Supports program were used to assess participants' quality of life over a one-year period. At baseline higher ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.51.1.116Correction
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