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Psychiatric Services

  • Volume 53
  • Number 2
  • February 2002

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Publication date: 01 February 2002

Pages157–170

Managed behavioral health care is increasingly being used in public mental health systems. While supporters cite potential benefits, critics describe dire consequences for individuals with serious, long-term mental illness. The situation has parallels ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.53.2.157

Publication date: 01 February 2002

Pages171–178

Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) is a cognitive-behavioral approach to treating borderline personality disorder. Early empirical results are promising, although they are not sufficient to establish DBT as an evidence-based practice in community ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.53.2.171

Publication date: 01 February 2002

Pages179–184

OBJECTIVE: Data from prescribing physicians were used to assess whether serotonergic antidepressants were used for appropriate indications and at appropriate initial dosages. METHODS: Data were derived from the confidential logs of psychiatrists and ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.53.2.179

Publication date: 01 February 2002

Pages185–189

In September 1998 the University of Massachusetts Medical School, in partnership with a private vendor of correctional health care, began providing mental health services and other services to the Massachusetts Department of Correction. The experience ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.53.2.185

Publication date: 01 February 2002

Pages190–194

OBJECTIVE: Representative payee programs can improve the community tenure of persons with mental illness by ensuring that their basic needs, such as housing, are met. The authors conducted a survey to assess the extent to which representative payee ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.53.2.190

Publication date: 01 February 2002

Pages195–200

OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to identify differences between African-American and white women in the use of behavioral health services and factors associated with these differences. METHODS: In one large public behavioral health system, data ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.53.2.195

Publication date: 01 February 2002

Pages201–206

OBJECTIVE: This study examined whether psychiatric symptoms and deviant behavior among eight-year-old children predicted referral for a psychiatric consultation by age 12. METHODS: A total of 1,268 children in Finland were assessed at age eight and again ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.53.2.201

Brief Report

Publication date: 01 February 2002

Pages207–210

This study compared experts' views on the critical ingredients of assertive community treatment and intensive case management. Twenty experts on assertive community treatment and 22 experts on intensive case management rated the importance of 40 elements ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.53.2.207

Publication date: 01 February 2002

Pages210–212

The study compared clinicians' perceptions of three groups of veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD): those seeking compensation for PTSD, those not seeking compensation, and those certified as permanently disabled and thus not needing to ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.53.2.210

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