Psychiatric Services

Introduction by the column editors: Mainstream psychiatry has all but ignored the clinical needs of persons with developmental disabilities. With some notable exceptions, individuals in this group have been served in the community by behaviorally oriented ...

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Consumer & Family Information

Publication date: 01 January 2002

Pages19–20https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.53.1.19

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Managed Care: Strengthening the Consumer Voice in Managed Care: III. The Philadelphia Consumer Satisfaction Team

Publication date: 01 January 2002

Pages23–29https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.53.1.23

Law & Psychiatry: Can a Psychiatrist Be Held Responsible When a Patient Commits Murder?

Paul S. Appelbaum, M.D.

Publication date: 01 January 2002

Pages27–29https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.53.1.27

Special Report

Highlights of the 2001 Institute on Psychiatric Services

Publication date: 01 January 2002

Pages32–36https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.53.1.32

Article

Effects of Commonly Used Benzodiazepines on the Fetus, the Neonate, and the Nursing Infant

Publication date: 01 January 2002

Pages39–49

OBJECTIVE: Despite the widespread use of benzodiazepines during pregnancy and lactation, little information is available about their effect on the developing fetus and on nursing infants. The authors review what is currently known about the effects of ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.53.1.39

Predicting Incarceration of Clients of a Psychiatric Probation and Parole Service

Publication date: 01 January 2002

Pages50–56

OBJECTIVE: This study assessed the extent to which clinical characteristics, psychiatric status, and use of mental health services explain incarceration for technical violations of probation or parole rather than incarceration for new offenses. METHODS: A ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.53.1.50

Severity of Children's Psychopathology and Impairment and Its Relationship to Treatment Setting

Publication date: 01 January 2002

Pages57–62

OBJECTIVE: The study investigated the settings in which children and adolescents were treated to determine whether clinicians assigned individuals who had greater needs to more intensive treatment. METHODS: Subjects were 603 children four to 16 years of ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.53.1.57

Work Rehabilitation and Patterns of Substance Use Among Persons With Schizophrenia

Publication date: 01 January 2002

Pages63–69

OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to identify patterns of substance use among participants in work rehabilitation, to identify symptom patterns associated with substance use, and to assess the impact of substance use on work rehabilitation outcomes. ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.53.1.63

Gender Differences in Juvenile Arrestees' Drug Use, Self-Reported Dependence, and Perceived Need for Treatment

Publication date: 01 January 2002

Pages70–75

OBJECTIVES: The authors examined gender differences in drug use, self-reported dependence, and perceived need for treatment in a national sample of juvenile arrestees and detainees between the ages of nine and 18 years. METHODS: A sample of 4,644 boys and ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.53.1.70

The Association Between Decreasing Length of Stay and Readmission Rate on a Psychogeriatric Unit

Publication date: 01 January 2002

Pages76–79

OBJECTIVE: This study investigated whether there was an association between decreasing length of stay and readmission rate on a psychogeriatric unit. METHODS: Discharge summaries were reviewed for all 1,099 admissions to a university hospital ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.53.1.76

Prevalence and Severity of Mental Health-Related Disability and Relationship to Diagnosis

Publication date: 01 January 2002

Pages80–86

OBJECTIVE: Psychiatric disability has been defined largely from measures that focus on serious mental illness. This practice may have led to substantial underestimation of the total impact of mental disorders on community health. In this study a generic ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.53.1.80

Patients' and Staff Members' Attitudes About the Rights of Hospitalized Psychiatric Patients

Publication date: 01 January 2002

Pages87–91

OBJECTIVE: The goal of this study was to assess and compare patients' and staff members' attitudes about what rights hospitalized psychiatric patients should have. METHODS: A 31-item inventory, developed for the study, for assessing attitudes about what ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.53.1.87

Brief Report

Seven-Year Outcomes of Patients Evaluated for Suicidality

Michael T. Lambert, M.D.

Publication date: 01 January 2002

Pages92–94

This study assessed the seven-year outcomes of 137 patients who presented with suicidality. Forty-five of the patients were contingently suicidal, that is, they originally presented with suicidal threats designed to gain hospital admission; 92 patients ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.53.1.92

Pharmacologic Treatment of Hospitalized Patients With Schizoaffective Disorder

Publication date: 01 January 2002

Pages94–96

This study examined changes in the pharmacologic treatment of 70 patients who were hospitalized with a diagnosis of schizoaffective disorder at some time during a six-year period. An increasing use of divalproex sodium and atypical antipsychotics instead ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.53.1.94

Factors Associated With Insight Among Outpatients With Serious Mental Illness

Publication date: 01 January 2002

Pages96–98

This study examined the relationships between insight, severity of symptoms, diagnosis, locus of control, quality of life, and engulfment among 25 patients with a DSM-III-R diagnosis of schizophrenia and 33 patients with a diagnosis of bipolar disorder. ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.53.1.96