Psychiatric Services
- Volume 53
- Number 6
- June 2002
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Publication date: 01 June 2002
Pages707–713The treatment of patients with substance use disorders requires that providers be aware of their own views on the relative roles of personal responsibility and of forces outside personal control in the onset and progression of and recovery from these ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.53.6.707Publication date: 01 June 2002
Pages714–718OBJECTIVE: Quality of life in a treatment-seeking cohort of patients with social anxiety disorder was compared with that of patients with panic disorder who were matched for age, comorbid illnesses, and gender and with population-based norms. METHODS: The ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.53.6.714Publication date: 01 June 2002
Pages719–723OBJECTIVE: This study compared changes in receipt of government entitlements by homeless persons with and without psychotic ideation in New York City between January 1997 and July 1998, a period characterized by changing state government policies and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.53.6.719Publication date: 01 June 2002
Pages724–729OBJECTIVE: This study explored the extent and nature of agreement on outcome and service priorities between consumers, their providers, and their family members as well as providers' and family members' awareness of consumers' priorities. METHODS: ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.53.6.724Publication date: 01 June 2002
Pages730–737OBJECTIVE: The Global Assessment of Functioning (GAF) is an integral part of the standard multiaxial psychiatric diagnostic system. The purpose of including the GAF in DSM-IV as a tool for axis V assessment is to enable clinicians to obtain information ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.53.6.730Publication date: 01 June 2002
Pages738–742OBJECTIVE: This paper reviews research on chronic suicidality among patients with borderline personality disorder. METHODS: MEDLINE and PsycINFO databases were searched for all English-language articles published between 1984 and 2000 containing the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.53.6.738Publication date: 01 June 2002
Pages743–748OBJECTIVES: The authors studied enrollees in employer-sponsored managed health plans to determine the extent of multiple behavioral health consumers within families, use of behavioral health services by employees who have another family member using such ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.53.6.743Publication date: 01 June 2002
Pages749–754OBJECTIVES: Outpatient and inpatient mental health service outcomes for outpatients with schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder who received psychoeducational multiple-family group treatment were compared with outcomes for similar patients who received ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.53.6.749Brief Report
Publication date: 01 June 2002
Pages755–757The authors studied the efficacy of olanzapine and risperidone among patients with treatment-refractory schizophrenia who had been hospitalized for more than five years and who were not suitable candidates for a clozapine trial. The patients were ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.53.6.755Publication date: 01 June 2002
Pages757–760The authors examined the rate of and factors associated with alcohol abuse among 754 urban American Indian and Alaska Native primary care patients. Data were collected through a self-administered survey and by abstracting medical records. A total of 423 ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.53.6.757Publication date: 01 June 2002
Pages761–763As part of a larger interview, clients of assertive community treatment programs answered an open-ended question about what they liked least about assertive community treatment. Of 182 clients, 44 percent reported that they disliked nothing; 21 percent ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.53.6.761Publication date: 01 June 2002
Pages764–766Use of drugs and alcohol by 43 predominantly male outpatients who had severe mental illness and a comorbid substance use disorder were assessed weekly through the ratings of experienced dual disorder case managers and through blinded research urine ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.53.6.764