Psychiatric Services
- Volume 52
- Number 5
- May 2001
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Publication date: 01 May 2001
Pages589–592Introduction by the column editors: Despite the well-documented efficacy of psychoeducational and behavioral approaches in family interventions for persons with serious mental illness (), clinicians have rarely included these methods in their ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.52.5.589Evidence-Based Practices
Publication date: 01 May 2001
Pages619–625Medication treatment of severe mental illness has been advanced and complicated by the introduction of numerous therapeutic agents. Practice guidelines based on research evidence have been developed to help clinicians make complex decisions. Studies of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.52.5.619Other Articles
Publication date: 01 May 2001
Pages626–630The Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) prohibits employment discrimination on the basis of disability. Originally, an assessment of whether a person had a disability and thus was protected by the ADA examined the person's impairment in its uncorrected ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.52.5.626Publication date: 01 May 2001
Pages631–636OBJECTIVE: Case management studies from Europe and the United States continue to yield conflicting results. At a symposium at the World Psychiatric Conference in Hamburg in 1999, researchers from four European countries explored the possible reasons for ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.52.5.631Publication date: 01 May 2001
Pages637–643OBJECTIVE: Social phobia is a chronic disorder with a higher prevalence among women than men. Data from an eight-year longitudinal study were analyzed to investigate the course of social phobia and to explore potential sex differences in the course and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.52.5.637Publication date: 01 May 2001
Pages644–649OBJECTIVE: In June 1995 the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) instituted a new charge priority policy. Under the new policy, charges are classified as one of three priority levels during or immediately after intake. Only charges assigned ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.52.5.644Publication date: 01 May 2001
Pages650–653To improve the cost-effectiveness of psychotropic medications, a process was established to involve all stakeholders in a seven-county public-sector behavioral health managed care plan in the development of formulary guidelines. After delineation of the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.52.5.650Publication date: 01 May 2001
Pages654–659OBJECTIVE: This study reanalyzed existing data to assess the extent to which persons with mental illness might contribute to criminal violence in the community. METHODS: Data were examined from a representative sample of 1,151 remanded offenders who ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.52.5.654Publication date: 01 May 2001
Pages660–665OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to examine the prevalence of religious coping among persons with persistent mental illness and to gain a preliminary understanding of the relationship between religious coping and symptom severity and overall ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.52.5.660Variations in the Treatment Culture of Nursing Homes and Responses to Regulations to Reduce Drug Use
Publication date: 01 May 2001
Pages666–672OBJECTIVE: The study examined the relationship between treatment cultures of nursing homes and their responses to regulations to reduce use of psychotropic drugs mandated by the 1987 Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act. The authors hypothesized that ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.52.5.666Brief Report
Publication date: 01 May 2001
Pages673–675This paper describes how a large, multifaceted dual diagnosis treatment program has attempted to preserve its mission through termination of or changes in the nature of resident research projects. Research reports, because of their focus on specific ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.52.5.673Publication date: 01 May 2001
Pages676–678This study compared the discharge rates and drug costs of 789 patients with schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder who began pharmacotherapy with olanzapine or risperidone between July 1997 and June 1998. Discharge rates 30 days after the start of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.52.5.676Publication date: 01 May 2001
Pages679–681For a study designed to examine the accuracy of information about HIV transmission, risk behavior, and preventive measures among individuals with psychiatric disorders in Italy, 214 psychiatric patients—114 outpatients and 100 inpatients—and 88 ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.52.5.679Publication date: 01 May 2001
Pages682–684In a sample of patients with schizophrenia, four clusters were identified and service use and relatives' satisfaction analyzed. In the first cluster, patients' severity of illness was mild and their use of services low. In the second, patients' disability ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.52.5.682Unusual Case Report
Publication date: 01 May 2001
Pages685–686Previous case reports on autocastration have identified individuals who engaged in genital self-mutilation as being overtly psychotic, as having previously received a diagnosis of schizophrenia, or as having significant dysfunction of ego integrity, ...
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