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Psychiatric Services

Volume 50, Issue 12

December 1999
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Taking Issue
December 1999
Behavioral Health Care Parity and String Quartets
  • James E. Sabin, M.D., Codirector, Center for Ethics in Managed Care, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care and Harvard Medical School
  • Page:1529
  • Published Online:1 December 1999

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.50.12.1529

Column
December 1999
Economic Grand Rounds: The High Costs of Care for Four Patients With Mania Who Were Not Compliant With Treatment
  • Pages:1539–1542
  • Published Online:1 December 1999

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.50.12.1539

December 1999
Personal Accounts: Family Talk
  • Pages:1541–1542
  • Published Online:1 December 1999

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.50.12.1541

December 1999
Practical Geriatrics: Psychiatric Consultation to Nursing Homes
  • Pages:1547–1550
  • Published Online:1 December 1999

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.50.12.1547

December 1999
Emergency Psychiatry: Contemporary Practices in Managing Acutely Violent Patients in 20 Psychiatric Emergency Rooms
  • Pages:1553–1554
  • Published Online:1 December 1999

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.50.12.1553

December 1999
Datapoints: Prescription Patterns for Mood and Anxiety Disorders in a Community Population
  • Page:1557
  • Published Online:1 December 1999

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.50.12.1557

Departments
December 1999
Web Sites Worth Watching
  • Page:1559
  • Published Online:1 December 1999

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.50.12.1559

Historical Note
December 1999
Daniel Blain: Founder of This Journal
  • Page:1563
  • Published Online:1 December 1999

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.50.12.1563

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Our Reviewers
December 1999
Appreciation to Reviewers
  • Pages:1565–1569
  • Published Online:1 December 1999

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.50.12.1565

Article
December 1999
Use of the Balanced Scorecard to Improve the Quality of Behavioral Health Care
  • Pages:1571–1576
  • Published Online:1 December 1999

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.50.12.1571

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December 1999
Outcomes of Four Treatment Approaches in Community Residential Programs for Patients With Substance Use Disorders
  • Pages:1577–1583
  • Published Online:1 December 1999

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.50.12.1577

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December 1999
Adequacy of Prenatal Care Among Women With Psychiatric Diagnoses Giving Birth in California in 1994 and 1995
  • Pages:1584–1590
  • Published Online:1 December 1999

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.50.12.1584

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December 1999
Child Psychiatrists as Leaders in Public Mental Health Systems: Two Surveys of State Mental Health Departments
  • Pages:1591–1595
  • Published Online:1 December 1999

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.50.12.1591

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Special Section on Mentally Ill Offenders
December 1999
Offenders With Mental Disorders: A Call to Action
  • Page:1596
  • Published Online:1 December 1999

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.50.12.1596

December 1999
An Outpatient Psychiatry Program for Offenders With Mental Disorders Found Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity
  • Pages:1597–1605
  • Published Online:1 December 1999

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.50.12.1597

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December 1999
Pathways Into Prostitution Among Female Jail Detainees and Their Implications for Mental Health Services
  • Pages:1606–1613
  • Published Online:1 December 1999

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.50.12.1606

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December 1999
A Collaborative Community-Based Treatment Program for Offenders With Mental Illness
  • Pages:1614–1619
  • Published Online:1 December 1999

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.50.12.1614

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December 1999
A SAMHSA Research Initiative Assessing the Effectiveness of Jail Diversion Programs for Mentally Ill Persons
  • Pages:1620–1623
  • Published Online:1 December 1999

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.50.12.1620

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December 1999
Planning to Meet the Needs of Offenders With Mental Disorders in the United Kingdom
  • Pages:1624–1627
  • Published Online:1 December 1999

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.50.12.1624

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December 1999
Psychiatric Illness and Comorbidity Among Adult Male Jail Detainees in Drug Treatment
  • Pages:1628–1630
  • Published Online:1 December 1999

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.50.12.1628

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Brief Report
December 1999
Mental Health Benefit Limits and Cost Sharing Under Managed Care: A National Survey of Employers
  • Pages:1631–1633
  • Published Online:1 December 1999

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.50.12.1631

Preview Abstract
December 1999
Initial Treatment Engagement in a Rural Community Mental Health Center
  • Pages:1634–1636
  • Published Online:1 December 1999

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.50.12.1634

Preview Abstract
December 1999
The Use of Physical Restraints in Polish Psychiatric Hospitals in 1989 and 1996
  • Pages:1637–1638
  • Published Online:1 December 1999

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.50.12.1637

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Letter
December 1999
A Flawed Study Design?
  • Page:1639
  • Published Online:1 December 1999

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.50.12.1639

December 1999
A Flawed Study Design
  • Pages:1639-a–1640
  • Published Online:1 December 1999

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.50.12.1639-a

December 1999
An ACT Program for Co-Occurring Disorders
  • Page:1640
  • Published Online:1 December 1999

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.50.12.1640

December 1999
Employment and Disability
  • Pages:1640-a–1640
  • Published Online:1 December 1999

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.50.12.1640-a

Book Review
December 1999
Three Seductive Ideas
  • Page:1641
  • Published Online:1 December 1999

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.50.12.1641

December 1999
Antisocial Behavior and Mental Health Problems: Explanatory Factors in Childhood and Adolescence
  • Page:1642
  • Published Online:1 December 1999

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.50.12.1642

December 1999
The Harvard Medical School Guide to Suicide Assessment and Intervention
  • Pages:1642-a–1643
  • Published Online:1 December 1999

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.50.12.1642-a

December 1999
History of Suicide: Voluntary Death in Western Culture
  • Pages:1643–1644
  • Published Online:1 December 1999

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.50.12.1643

Book Review: Reclaiming Oneself From the Symptoms of Mental Illness
December 1999
First Person Plural: My Life As a Multiple • Win the Battle: The 3-Step Lifesaving Formula to Conquer Depression and Bipolar Disorder • Prozac Diary • Holy Hunger: A Memoir of Desire • Inner Hunger: A Young Woman's Struggle Through Anorexia and Bulimia
  • Pages:1644–1647
  • Published Online:1 December 1999

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.50.12.1644

Book Review
December 1999
Truth: Four Stories I Am Finally Old Enough to Tell
  • Page:1647
  • Published Online:1 December 1999

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.50.12.1647

December 1999
The Perspectives of Psychiatry, second edition
  • Pages:1647-a–1648
  • Published Online:1 December 1999

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.50.12.1647-a

December 1999
Schizophrenia From a Neurocognitive Perspective: Probing the Impenetrable Darkness
  • Page:1648
  • Published Online:1 December 1999

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.50.12.1648

News & Notes
December 1999
  • Pages:1649–1650
  • Published Online:1 December 1999

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.50.12.1649