Psychiatric Services
- Volume 54
- Number 10
- October 2003
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Publication date: 01 October 2003
Pages1339–1341Introduction by the column editor: This column, by Dr. Anderson from the College of Public Health at the University of Iowa, deals with the conundrum of dual diagnosis among adolescents. The problems Dr. Anderson describes are all the more daunting ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.54.10.1339Publication date: 01 October 2003
Pages1347–1349Introduction by the column editor: There are many well-known figures in history whose mental illness has been brought to light—Abraham Lincoln, Winston Churchill, Edgar Allen Poe, Ernest Hemingway, and Isaac Newton among them. And there are those whose ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.54.10.1347Other Articles
Publication date: 01 October 2003
Pages1351–1356OBJECTIVES: The objective of this study was to provide a brief history of the concept of continuity of care, to update evidence of its association with patient outcomes, and to identify optimal characteristics of a continuity-of-care instrument. METHODS: ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.54.10.1351Publication date: 01 October 2003
Pages1357–1363This article presents recommendations developed in 2001 by a committee of the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene that are used for managing acute aggressive behavior of youths in residential and inpatient treatment facilities in Maryland. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.54.10.1357Publication date: 01 October 2003
Pages1364–1371OBJECTIVE: This study assessed trends in access to and use of behavioral health services for school-aged children in TennCare, Tennessee's Medicaid managed care program, between state fiscal years 1995 and 2000. METHODS: Claims, encounter, and enrollment ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.54.10.1364Publication date: 01 October 2003
Pages1372–1379OBJECTIVE: This study tested the interrater reliability and criterion-related validity of structured violence risk judgments made by using one application of the structured professional judgment model of violence risk assessment, the HCR-20 violence risk ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.54.10.1372Publication date: 01 October 2003
Pages1380–1382OBJECTIVE: The authors examined posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), alcohol use, and perceptions of safety in a sample of survivors of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attack on the Pentagon. METHODS: Analyses were conducted to examine the effect of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.54.10.1380Publication date: 01 October 2003
Pages1383–1387OBJECTIVE: This study examined emotional and behavioral effects on hospital staff after a series of sniper shootings in the Washington, D.C., area. METHODS: Employees of a large tertiary care military hospital were anonymously surveyed about their ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.54.10.1383Publication date: 01 October 2003
Pages1388–1394OBJECTIVE: This study examined the relationship between the characteristics of inpatients and staff members' emotional reactions to the patients, particularly the extent to which the reactions were related to patients' aggressive or suicidal behavior. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.54.10.1388Publication date: 01 October 2003
Pages1395–1401OBJECTIVES: Because use of benzodiazepines may exacerbate existing substance use disorders or become abused substances, prescription of benzodiazepines for patients with severe mental illness (schizophrenia or bipolar disorder) and co-occurring substance ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.54.10.1395Brief Report
Publication date: 01 October 2003
Pages1402–1404Research has identified misleading and stigmatizing popular beliefs about schizophrenia, but little is known about media images corresponding to these beliefs. Building on Susan Sontag's exploration of cancer in the 1978 book Illness as Metaphor, the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.54.10.1402Publication date: 01 October 2003
Pages1404–1406The Project Liberty program was established after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, to offer free mental health services to New York City residents. The authors used data from a random-digit-dial telephone survey to assess public awareness of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.54.10.1404Publication date: 01 October 2003
Pages1407–1409The study examined gender differences in sociodemographic, clinical, and mental health service use variables among patients with schizophrenia in a public mental health care system. Data from 1999 to 2000 for 4,975 adult patients were analyzed. Women were ...
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