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Volume 42, Issue 8

August 1991

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August 1991

The Moral of Clozapine

Howard H. Fenn

Page:773
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.42.8.773

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August 1991

Ensuring Highest-Quality Care for the Cost: Coping Strategies for Mental Health Providers

James Schuster

Pages:774–776
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.42.8.774

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August 1991

A New Video About Classic Work on Mother-Child Separation

Ian Alger

Pages:782–783
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.42.8.782

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August 1991

New Collection of H&CP Audiovisual Reviews Available

Page:783
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.42.8.783

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August 1991

Taste, Food Exposure, and Eating Behavior

Elizabeth D. Capaldi, and
Gary R. VandenBos

Pages:787–789
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.42.8.787

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August 1991

Strategies for Integrating Public Mental Health Services

David Mechanic

Pages:797–801
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.42.8.797

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Practical solutions to the issues troubling public mental health systems must be developed within the constraints of existing political structures. A key enabling factor is the inclusion of a broad range of reimbursable mental health benefits within ...

August 1991

Characteristics of Elderly Persons Seen in an Urban Psychiatric Emergency Room

Douglas A. Puryear,
Robert Lovitt, and
Deborah A. Miller

Pages:802–807
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.42.8.802

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With the aging of the U.S. population, an increase in the use of the psychiatric emergency room by elderly persons is expected. In this study of 118 elderly persons seen in a general hospital psychiatric emergency room, half bad a history of psychiatric ...

August 1991

Prevalence of Somatic and Psychiatric Disorders Among Former Prisoners of War

Raina E. Eberly, and
Brian E. Engdahl

Pages:807–813
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.42.8.807

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American former prisoners of war (POWs) are an aging group who seek health care with increasing frequency. To examine the prevalence of long-term physical and emotional consequences of captivity in this population, the authors analyzed medical and ...

August 1991

A Problem-Solving Approach to Group Psychotherapy in the Inpatient Milieu

Frederic J. Sautter,
Chris Heaney, and
Patrick O'Neill

Pages:814–817
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.42.8.814

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Because of the trend toward a marked decrease in length of psychiatric hospitalization, clinicians need to improve the organization of the therapeutic milieu so that behavioral changes can be effected more rapidly. A university general psychiatric unit ...

August 1991

H&CP Service Offers Benefits to Institutions

Page:817
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.42.8.817

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August 1991

Effect of Evaluations of Competency to Stand Trial on the State Hospital in an Era of Increased Community Services

Jeffrey L. Geller,
William H. Fisher, and
Neil S. Kaye

Pages:818–823
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.42.8.818

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The authors studied court-ordered inpatient evaluations of competency to stand trial at two Massachusetts state hospitals for the period from 1972 to 1987, with particular attention to the effects of a 1978 federal court consent decree that created an ...

August 1991

A Checklist of Hospitalization Criteria for Use With Children

Anthony J. Costello,
Mina K. Dulcan, and
Robert Kalas

Pages:823–828
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.42.8.823

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Each year in the U.S. more than 130,000 children are hospitalized for psychiatric reasons. The decision to hospitalize a child is based on a complex set of factors. In this study, a 12-item checklist of criteria for hospitalization adapted by the authors ...

August 1991

Developing New Certificate-of-Need Regulations for Inpatient Care of Children in New York State

René C. Grosser,
Mary I. Armstrong, and
John A. Hornik

Pages:829–833
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.42.8.829

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In 1988 New York State imposed a moratorium on the development of new psychiatric beds for children because the state's certificate-of-need law lacked objective criteria for evaluating applications. The following year the department introduced revised ...

August 1991

Influence of Substance Abuse and Mental Disorders on Emergency Room Use by Homeless Adults

Deborah K. Padgett, and
Elmer L. Struening

Pages:834–838
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.42.8.834

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Substance abuse and mental disorders increase the health care needs of homeless persons, whose primary source of care is often the emergency room. In this study, associations between substance abuse and mental health problems and use of emergency rooms ...

August 1991

A Supported Education Program for Young Adults With Long-Term Mental Illness

Karen V. Unger,
William A. Anthony,
Kenneth Sciarappa, and
E. Sally Rogers

Pages:838–842
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.42.8.838

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Fifty-two young adults with severe psychiatric disabilities were selected to participate in a university-based supported education program aimed at helping them develop the skills to choose and implement a career plan. Thirty-five of the subjects ...

August 1991

Group Activity and Cognitive Improvement Among Patients With Alzheimer's Disease

Gary J. Gerber,
Pamela N. Prince,
H. G. Snider,
Kathleen Atchison,
Lori Dubois, and
John A. Kilgour

Pages:843–845
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.42.8.843

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August 1991

"Cocooning": A Clinical Sign of Depression in Geriatric Patients

F. M. Baker, and
Catherine L. Miller

Pages:845–846
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.42.8.845

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August 1991

Comorbidity and Treatment Outcome of Inpatients With Chronic Combat-Related PTSD

Patrick A. Boudewyns,
J. William Albrecht,
F. Suzanne Talbert, and
Leon A. Hyer

Pages:847–849
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.42.8.847

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August 1991

Validity of Psychiatric Patients' Self-Reports of Rehospitalization

M. K. Distefano,
Margaret W. Pryer, and
Jesse L. Garrison

Pages:849–850
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.42.8.849

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August 1991

Mass Phenomena at a Black South African Primary School

Bernadette Wittstock,
Lydia Rozental, and
Charlene Henn

Pages:851–853
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.42.8.851

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The current study has important implications in the South African context. The team acted as a bridge between the department of education and the school and community systems, establishing links for future negotiations between them. The ecological systems ...

August 1991

Factors Predicting Inpatient Length of Stay in a CMHC

Grace Chang,
Louise Brenner, and
Kendall Bryant

Pages:853–855
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.42.8.853

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At this urban, university-affiliated CMHC, 20 percent of the variance in length of stay was accounted for by specific clinical and social characteristics of patients, some of which indicate areas of potential intervention in managing hospital utilization. ...

August 1991

Sexual Behavior of Hospitalized Chronic Psychiatric Patients

Steven Welch,
Joseph Meagher,
John Soos, and
Jaswant Bhopal

Pages:855–856
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.42.8.855

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August 1991

Unrecognized Physical Illness

Robert A. Maricle,
Alex R. Burt, and
Joseph D. Bloom

Pages:856–857
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.42.8.856

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August 1991

Elaine Knutsen, and
Curtiss DuRand

Page:857
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.42.8.857

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August 1991

Problems With Interpreters

William C. Friend, and
Andrew N. Dentino

Pages:857-a–858
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.42.8.857-a

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August 1991

Rafael Art Javier, and
Carmen Vasquez

Page:858
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.42.8.858

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August 1991

H&CP Institute Offers Wide-Ranging Program

Pages:858-a–858
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.42.8.858-a

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August 1991

Pages:860–862
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.42.8.860

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