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Psychiatric Services

  • Volume 51
  • Number 8
  • August 2000

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Publication date: 01 August 2000

Pages1001–1005

Managed care has transformed the health care environment that residents encounter on completion of their training. Unfortunately, residency education has not kept pace with changes in the field, leaving graduates inadequately prepared. The authors ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.51.8.1001

Publication date: 01 August 2000

Pages1006–1011

OBJECTIVE: Guidelines for the treatment of severe mental illness recommend that providers share information with families and involve them in treatment. However, research indicates that consumer-provider-family collaboration is not part of routine ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.51.8.1006

Publication date: 01 August 2000

Pages1012–1016

OBJECTIVE: Homelessness and patterns of service use were examined among seriously mentally ill persons in an area with a well-funded community-based mental health system. METHODS: The sample consisted of 438 individuals referred between 1990 and 1992 to ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.51.8.1012

Publication date: 01 August 2000

Pages1017–1023

OBJECTIVE: The study examined client characteristics, case management variables, and housing features associated with referral, entry, and short-term success in a Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) national intensive case management and rental assistance ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.51.8.1017

Publication date: 01 August 2000

Pages1024–1028

OBJECTIVE: Homeless persons with serious mental illness are especially likely to lack access to comprehensive medical and psychiatric care. This study examined the relative importance of predisposing factors, illness factors, and enabling factors as ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.51.8.1024

Publication date: 01 August 2000

Pages1029–1033

OBJECTIVE: The effectiveness of an experimental model of personal advocacy for involuntarily hospitalized psychiatric patients was examined. In the model, a personal advocate represented the needs and best interests of patients throughout the period of ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.51.8.1029

Publication date: 01 August 2000

Pages1034–1039

OBJECTIVE: The aims of the study were to determine whether the caregivers of discharged patients with schizophrenia were satisfied with their situation in general and with psychiatric services in particular and to examine the factors associated with ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.51.8.1034

Brief Report

Publication date: 01 August 2000

Pages1040–1042

The Problem Behavior Recording System (PBRS) is a computer-based monitoring system for tracking aggression and other problem behaviors among inpatients on neuropsychiatric units. The authors describe the system and compare it with other tracking systems. ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.51.8.1040

Publication date: 01 August 2000

Pages1042–1044

This study reports the development of the My Life Questionnaire (MLQ), a self-report measure of factors that protect inner-city youth against stressors such as poverty, crime, and violence. An initial pool of 23 items reflecting important protective ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.51.8.1042

Publication date: 01 August 2000

Pages1045–1047

Use of mental health and substance abuse services was examined among 109 American Indian adolescents in a Northern Plains reservation community. Each was interviewed to assess psychiatric diagnosis and service use and to determine whether an adult had ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.51.8.1045

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