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Volume 40, Issue 8

August 1989

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August 1989

Violent Behavior and Length of Hospitalization

Kenneth Tardiff

Page:781
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.40.8.781

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August 1989

Asylums, Asphalt, and Ethics

Andrew Shaner

Pages:785–786
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.40.8.785

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Dr. Eth's Introduction: Homelessness has burst into the American consciousness, and with it recognition of the many homeless persons who are mentally ill. Less conspicuous, but no less important, are the daily problems psychiatrists face in evaluating the ...

August 1989

Borderline Syndrome and AIDS Education

Pages:789–791
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.40.8.789

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August 1989

Psychiatric Services to Nursing Homes: A Liaison Model

David Bienenfeld, and
Beverly G. Wheeler

Pages:793–794
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.40.8.793

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August 1989

Public Mental Health Funding in California, 1959 to 1989

John R. Elpers

Pages:799–804
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.40.8.799

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Actual expenditures for local mental health services in California from 1959 to 1989 are analyzed to determine trends in state funding of services. As the locus of authority for mental health services shifted from state to county governments, the relative ...

August 1989

Comparative Costs and Impacts of Canadian and American Payment Systems for Mental Health Services

Douglas A. Bigelow, and
Bentson H. McFarland

Pages:805–808
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.40.8.805

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In attempts to contain mental health costs, administrators are increasingly using incentives, competition, and accounting strategies and are creating more complicated financing systems. Yet the costs of these strategies and their impacts on the efficacy ...

August 1989

Violent Behavior and Length of Psychiatric Hospitalization

Thomas K. Greenfield,
Dale E. McNiel, and
Renée L. Binder

Pages:809–814
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.40.8.809

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The relationship between violent behavior and length of hospitalization was studied in a retrospective chart review of 253 patients admitted to a university-based acute inpatient unit. Violent behavior was defined as physical attacks on persons or fear-...

August 1989

H&CP Service Benefits

Page:814
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.40.8.814

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August 1989

How Nursing Staff Respond to the Label "Borderline Personality Disorder"

Ruth Gallop,
W. J. Lancee, and
Paul Garfinkel

Pages:815–819
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.40.8.815

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The influence of the diagnostic labels "schizophrenia" and "borderline personality disorder" on the expressed empathy of psychiatric nursing staff was assessed by examining nurses' written responses to a series of hypothetical patient statements. ...

August 1989

Factors Predicting Utilization of Acute Psychiatric Inpatient Services by Frequently Hospitalized Patients

Barbara E. Havassy, and
John T. Hopkin

Pages:820–823
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.40.8.820

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A three-month cohort of admissions (N=300) to an acute psychiatric inpatient unit of a county general hospital was studied to identify factors that differentiate patients with multiple admissions over a 12-month period from those with only a single ...

August 1989

H&CP Institute Offers Wide-Ranging Program

Page:823
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.40.8.823

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August 1989

Community Adjustment of Chronic Schizophrenic Patients in Urban and Rural Settings

Marilyn A. Davies,
Evelyn J. Bromet,
S. Charles Schulz,
Leslie Oden Dunn, and
Merle Morgenstern

Pages:824–830
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.40.8.824

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The influence of environmental conditions on the community adjustment of chronic schizophrenic patients who live in boarding homes and other residential facilities was studied using data from medical records and interviews with patients. Seventyeight ...

August 1989

Families of the Seriously Mentally Ill and Their Satisfaction With Services

Christine E. Grella, and
Oscar Grusky

Pages:831–835
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.40.8.831

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Family members of seriously mentally ill persons were interviewed to determine their satisfaction with services received through a countywide service system based on the community support program (CSP) model developed by the National Institute of Mental ...

August 1989

Psychiatric Emergency Room Dispositions of HMO Enrollees

Mark Olfson

Page:835
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.40.8.835

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In the paper entitled "Psychiatric Emergency Room Dispositions of HMO Enrollees" by Mark Olfson, M.D., in the June 1989 issue (pages 639-641), the numbers of nonwhite patients who were members of Blue Cross/Blue Shield (BC/BS) and who were Connecticut ...

August 1989

Developing a Unit for Mentally Retarded—Mentally Ill Patients on the Grounds of a State Hospital

Ilene M. Gold,
Elisabeth S. Wolfson,
Carolyn M. Lester,
John J. Ratey, and
Hilary E. Chmielinski

Pages:836–840
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.40.8.836

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For some time patients with the dual diagnosis of mental retardation and mental illness have been recognized as a distinct patient population, but development of programs meeting their special needs is slow. In October 1986 a Massachusetts state ...

August 1989

Women Who Shoot Themselves

Robert L. Frierson

Pages:841–843
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.40.8.841

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August 1989

Caregivers of Mentally Ill Adults: A Women's Agenda

Haya Ascher-Svanum, and
Teri S. Sobel

Pages:843–845
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.40.8.843

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August 1989

Weapon Carrying Among Patients in a Psychiatric Emergency Room

Allan A. Anderson,
A. Y. Ghali, and
Rakesh K. Bansil

Pages:845–847
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.40.8.845

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Weapon carrying is not a rare event among patients seen in psychiatric emergency services, and apparently no characteristics can effectively predict which patients carry weapons. Screening for weapons would make psychiatric services sections safer for ...

August 1989

Drug Abuse in Schizophrenia

Frank T. Miller, and
Judith Hertz Tanenbaum

Pages:847–849
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.40.8.847

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August 1989

Understanding Depression in Schizophrenia

Kenneth J. Weiss,
Edwin V. Valdiserri, and
William R. Dubin

Pages:849–851
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.40.8.849

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The formulation of a depressive syndrome in the context of schizophrenia represents a microcosm of frontier areas in psychiatry: the psychological rehabilitation of psychotic patients, the differentiation between schizophrenic and mood disorders, and the ...

August 1989

Use of Telephone Prompts at an Inner-City Outpatient Clinic

Ian M. Shivack, and
Cornelius W. Sullivan

Pages:851–853
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.40.8.851

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August 1989

Training Volunteers to Work With the Chronic Mentally Ill in the Community

Shelley Brook,
Irene Fantopoulos,
Fiona Johnston, and
Paula Goering

Pages:853–855
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.40.8.853

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The psychiatric literature gives evidence supporting the use of volunteers in caring for chronic psychiatric patients in the community. Thorough training of volunteers can be expected to enhance the quality of care they provide and help them to maintain ...

August 1989

W. Bradford Lyles,
Michael R. Ware, and
Martha J. Breen

Pages:855–856
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.40.8.855

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August 1989

Claire Griffin-Francell

Page:856
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.40.8.856

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August 1989

Self-Mutilation

V. Siomopoulos

Pages:856-a–856
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.40.8.856-a

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August 1989

Armando R. Favazza

Pages:856-b–857
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.40.8.856-b

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August 1989

Attitudes Toward AIDS

Joseph M. Merrill,
Lila Laux, and
John I. Thornby

Page:857
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.40.8.857

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August 1989

Community Support

Howard H. Goldman

Pages:857-a–858
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.40.8.857-a

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August 1989

Work in Rehabilitation

Bertram J. Black

Page:858
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.40.8.858

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August 1989

Frances Palmer

Pages:858-a–858
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.40.8.858-a

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August 1989

Pages:860–863
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.40.8.860

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