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Psychiatric Services

October 01, 1964, Vol. 15, No. 10
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1964 APA MENTAL HOSPITAL SERVICE ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS
The Home Treatment Service at Boston State Hospital Boston, Mass
The Teenage Activity Program Norman M. Beatty, Memorial Hospital Westville, Ind
The Versatile Program at The Fort Logan Mental Health Center Denver, Colo
.....STEP.....BY.....STEP..... to Foster-Family Training
Edward I. Singer; Edgar W. Guilford
Who Doesn't Need Therapy?
Whatsisname
A Psychiatric Clinic Evaluates Brief-Contact Therapy
Ronald R. Koegler; Norman Q. Brill; Leon J. Epstein; Edward W. Forgy
WORK THERAPY for Psychiatric Patients in a General Hospital
Meyer Williams; Louis Halperin
The Varied Uses of Part-Time Treatment
Philip M. Margolis
Social Work in an Aftercare Facility
Ramon Batista, Jr.
BALLET OF THE PARAPHRENIC (28 minutes, color). Available from Sandoz Pharmaceuticals, Hanover, N.J. A fanciful representation of a psychotic episode. As a girl recounts to a doctor her dreams of persecution, the audience is shown a literal enactment of her fantasies. Strong stuff, but it will interest psychiatrically-oriented medical personnel and students
Jack Neher
DAY HOSPITAL (20 minutes, black and white). Available from New York University Film Library, Washington Square, New York, N. Y. 10003. Dr. Joshua Bierer conducts an informative tour of Marlborough Day Hospital, London. Taken from a British television program, this film contains some interesting material about the role of patients' clubs in aftercare programs
Jack Neher
DELAYED JOURNEY (22 minutes, color). Available from the Maryland State Department of Mental Hygiene, 301 West Preston Street, Baltimore, Md. 21201. A filmed record of a therapeutic camping program for long-term patients
Jack Neher
EPILEPTIC SEIZURE PATTERNS (28 minutes, color). Available from Audio-Visual Center, Indiana University, Bloomington, Ind. A teaching film that presents examples of various kinds of seizures in children and adults. Also demonstrates the use of the electroencephalograph. (For professional or student audiences only.)
Jack Neher
GUTMAN HOUSE PROJECT (28 minutes, black and white). Available from Mental Health Association of Oregon, 427 S. W. 11th Avenue, Portland 5, Oreg. Filmed record of some successful cases of rehabilitation at a halfway house
Jack Neher
INDOKLON TREATMENTS (25 minutes, color). Available from Ohio Chemical & Surgical Equipment Company, 1400 East Washington Avenue, Madison, Wis. Shows how patients can be treated with a pharmacoconvulsive drug—by inhalation and intravenously —as an alternative to electroshock
Jack Neher
LSD: THE OTHER SIDE OF REALITY (28 minutes, color). Produced by San Mateo County Department of Public Health, Calif. Interesting film about hallucinogens—their effects on patients and their possible uses in therapy
Jack Neher
MRS. REYNOLDS NEEDS A NURSE (38 minutes, black and white). Available to full subscribers to the APA Mental Hospital Service from the APA Film Library. Also available from Smith Kline & French Medical Library, Philadelphia 1, Pa. An entertaining and instructive dramatization of patient-staff relationships in a general hospital. The demonstration of how staff attitudes affect patient behavior will interest psychiatric hospital staff, too
Jack Neher
PLAN AHEAD FOR MENTAL HEALTH (16 minutes, color). Available from Nebraska Psychiatric Institute, 602 South 44th Avenue, Omaha, Nebr. 68105. Animated cartoon about planning community mental health programs. Imaginative and informative
Jack Neher
PSYCHIATRIC NURSING—by Marguerite Lucy Manfreda, R.N., M.A. F. A. Davis Co., Philadelphia, 7th Edition, 1964, 504 pages, $6.50. (The six previous editions of this textbook were co-authored by Katherine McLean Steele, R.N., B.S.)
Esta M. Carini
PSYCHOANALYSIS (28 minutes, black and white). Available from NET Film Service, Indiana University, Bloomington, Ind. One of a series of nine films made for use on educational television stations. Mrs. Maria Piers, with the assistance of two psychoanalysts, explains the basic elements of this treatment modality
Jack Neher
THEY CALLED IT FIREPROOF (28 minutes, color or black and white). Available from National Film Board of Canada, 680 Fifth Avenue, New York, N. Y. 10019. An effective lesson in fire safety, showing how minor infractions in fire regulations added up to a major disaster in a modern general hospital. Will be useful for fire safety programs in psychiatric hospitals, too
Jack Neher
TO LIGHTEN THE SHADOWS (18 minutes, black and white). Available from Vocational Rehabilitation Administration, U. S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Washington 25, D. C. About training recreational personnel to handle play activities of mentally retarded children in a camp setting
Jack Neher
HAVE YOU READ?
PSP SUMMARRY
THE ADOLESCENT IN PSYCHOTHERAPY—by Donald J. Holmes, M.D. Little, Brown and Co., Boston, Mass., 1964, 335 pages, $9.50
Henry H. Work
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