Psychiatric Services
- Volume 53
- Number 10
- October 2002
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Publication date: 01 October 2002
Pages1253–1265OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this article is to inform mental health professionals about the empirical literature on medical and psychiatric encounters and the influence of communicative behaviors on specific encounter outputs and treatment outcomes. METHODS:...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.53.10.1253Publication date: 01 October 2002
Pages1266–1271With deinstitutionalization and the influx into the community of persons with severe mental illness, the police have become frontline professionals who manage these persons when they are in crisis. This article examines and comments on the issues raised ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.53.10.1266Publication date: 01 October 2002
Pages1272–1284Illness management is a broad set of strategies designed to help individuals with serious mental illness collaborate with professionals, reduce their susceptibility to the illness, and cope effectively with their symptoms. Recovery occurs when people with ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.53.10.1272Publication date: 01 October 2002
Pages1285–1289OBJECTIVE: This study sought to describe the use of criminal charges, sanctions (primarily jail), and other strategies mental health courts use to mandate adherence to community treatment, and in doing so to elaborate on earlier descriptions of such ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.53.10.1285Publication date: 01 October 2002
Pages1290–1296OBJECTIVE: Despite large numbers of mentally ill offenders in prisons, few studies of mentally ill offenders released from prison have been conducted. This study describes such a population of mentally ill offenders, the postrelease services they received,...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.53.10.1290Publication date: 01 October 2002
Pages1297–1300OBJECTIVE: This study explored the relationship between mandated decreases in transfers to a state hospital from a large urban psychiatric emergency facility and the occurrence of suicide in the catchment area served. METHODS: During 1996, new admission ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.53.10.1297Publication date: 01 October 2002
Pages1301–1307The landmark federal Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act of 1985 (EMTALA) requires that all patients who seek emergency treatment be given an adequate medical screening examination and prohibits discrimination on the basis of patients' ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.53.10.1301APA Achievement Awards
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Publication date: 01 October 2002
Pages1319–1321This study assessed symptoms, severity of illness functional level, insight into illness, and attitudes toward medication in a sample of psychiatric patients who were newly admitted to a state hospital. The patients were evaluated before and after ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.53.10.1319Publication date: 01 October 2002
Pages1322–1324The call for formal capacity assessments of potential research participants with impairments due to illnesses such as Alzheimer's disease is increasing. Because such an evaluation of every potential subject requires significant resources, clinicians and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.53.10.1322Publication date: 01 October 2002
Pages1325–1326This study examined whether the number of errors in discharge medication lists at a psychiatric hospital would decrease when the practice of transcribing the lists by hand from physicians' discharge orders was replaced by the use of personal digital ...
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