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Psychiatric Services

Volume 53, Issue 12

December 2002
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Taking Issue
December 2002
Evidence-Based Health Policy Versus Evidence-Based Medicine
  • Roland Sturm, Ph.D., senior economist, Rand, Santa Monica, California
  • Page:1499
  • Published Online:1 December 2002

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.53.12.1499

Departments
December 2002
This Month's Highlights
  • Page:1507
  • Published Online:1 December 2002

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.53.12.1507

Columns
December 2002
Datapoints: Use of Multiple Psychotropic Drugs by Medicaid-Insured and Privately Insured Children
  • Page:1508
  • Published Online:1 December 2002

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.53.12.1508

Our Reviewers
December 2002
Appreciation to Reviewers
  • Page:1509
  • Published Online:1 December 2002

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.53.12.1509

Columns
December 2002
Practical Geriatrics: Palliative Care: Something Else We Can Do for Our Patients
  • Pages:1525–1529
  • Published Online:1 December 2002

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.53.12.1525

December 2002
Emergency Psychiatry: Rapid Screening for Cognitive Impairment in the Psychiatric Emergency Service: I. Cognitive Screening Batteries
  • Pages:1527–1529
  • Published Online:1 December 2002

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.53.12.1527

December 2002
Economic Grand Rounds: Issues in Psychopharmacosocioeconomics
  • Pages:1532–1534
  • Published Online:1 December 2002

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.53.12.1532

December 2002
Multimedia Reviews: The Culture of Emotions: A Cultural Competence and Diversity Training Program
  • Pages:1537–1538
  • Published Online:1 December 2002

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.53.12.1537

Preview Abstract
December 2002
Clinical Computing: The Diffusion of Innovations Into Psychiatric Practice
  • Pages:1539–1540
  • Published Online:1 December 2002

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.53.12.1539

December 2002
Personal Accounts: The Partnership
  • Page:1541
  • Published Online:1 December 2002

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.53.12.1541

Special Section
December 2002
Mental Health Care for Latinos: Introduction to the Special Section
  • Pages:1545–1546
  • Published Online:1 December 2002

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.53.12.1545

Editor's Choice
December 2002
Mental Health Care for Latinos: Inequalities in Use of Specialty Mental Health Services Among Latinos, African Americans, and Non-Latino Whites
  • Pages:1547–1555
  • Published Online:1 December 2002

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.53.12.1547

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December 2002
Mental Health Care for Latinos: Mental Health Services for Latino Adolescents With Psychiatric Disorders
  • Pages:1556–1562
  • Published Online:1 December 2002

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.53.12.1556

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December 2002
Mental Health Care for Latinos: Translating Research Into Action: Reducing Disparities in Mental Health Care for Mexican Americans
  • Pages:1563–1568
  • Published Online:1 December 2002

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.53.12.1563

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December 2002
Mental Health Care for Latinos: A Research Agenda to Improve the Accessibility and Quality of Mental Health Care for Latinos
  • Pages:1569–1573
  • Published Online:1 December 2002

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.53.12.1569

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Other Articles
December 2002
A Rapid-Response Outpatient Model for Reducing Hospitalization Rates Among Suicidal Adolescents
  • Pages:1574–1579
  • Published Online:1 December 2002

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.53.12.1574

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December 2002
The Effect of Intensive Case Management on the Relatives of Patients With Severe Mental Illness
  • Pages:1580–1585
  • Published Online:1 December 2002

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.53.12.1580

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December 2002
Patient and Contextual Factors Related to the Decision to Hospitalize Patients From Emergency Psychiatric Services
  • Pages:1586–1591
  • Published Online:1 December 2002

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.53.12.1586

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December 2002
Factors Associated With Receipt of Behavioral Health Services Among Persons With Substance Dependence
  • Pages:1592–1598
  • Published Online:1 December 2002

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.53.12.1592

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December 2002
The Impact of Managed Care on Cross-System Use of Mental Health Services by Veterans in Colorado
  • Pages:1599–1604
  • Published Online:1 December 2002

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.53.12.1599

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December 2002
The Effects of Copayments on Substance Abuse Treatment Expenditures and Treatment Reoccurrence
  • Pages:1605–1611
  • Published Online:1 December 2002

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.53.12.1605

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December 2002
An Analysis of Cue Reactivity Among Persons With and Without Schizophrenia Who Are Addicted to Cocaine
  • Pages:1612–1616
  • Published Online:1 December 2002

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.53.12.1612

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December 2002
Public Health and Therapeutic Aspects of Smoking Bans in Mental Health and Addiction Settings
  • Pages:1617–1622
  • Published Online:1 December 2002

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.53.12.1617

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Brief Report
December 2002
Medical Disorders Among Patients Admitted to a Public-Sector Psychiatric Inpatient Unit
  • Pages:1623–1625
  • Published Online:1 December 2002

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.53.12.1623

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December 2002
Characteristics of Psychiatric Patients for Whom Financial Considerations Affect Optimal Treatment Provision
  • Pages:1626–1629
  • Published Online:1 December 2002

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.53.12.1626

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December 2002
Role of a Medical Staff Coding Committee in Documentation, Coding, and Billing Compliance
  • Pages:1629–1631
  • Published Online:1 December 2002

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.53.12.1629

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Open Forum
December 2002
Treatment of Drug Dependence in the Context of Traditional Disease Treatment Models
  • Pages:1632–1633
  • Published Online:1 December 2002

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.53.12.1632

Letters
December 2002
Remembering a Life
  • Page:1634
  • Published Online:1 December 2002

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.53.12.1634

December 2002
An Ethically Complex Scenario
  • Pages:1634-a–1634
  • Published Online:1 December 2002

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.53.12.1634-a

December 2002
An Ethically Complex Scenario
  • Page:1635
  • Published Online:1 December 2002

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.53.12.1635

Book Reviews
December 2002
Clinical Epiphanies in Marital and Family Therapy: A Practitioner's Casebook of Therapeutic Insights, Perceptions, and Breakthroughs • Divorce, Family Structure, and the Academic Success of Children • Living on the Razor's Edge: Solution-Oriented Brief Family Therapy With Self-Harming Adolescents
  • Pages:1636–1637
  • Published Online:1 December 2002

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.53.12.1636

December 2002
The Latino Psychiatric Patient: Assessment and Treatment
  • Page:1637
  • Published Online:1 December 2002

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.53.12.1637

December 2002
Helping America's Homeless: Emergency Shelter or Affordable Housing?
  • Page:1638
  • Published Online:1 December 2002

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.53.12.1638

December 2002
Psychiatric Illness in Women: Emerging Treatments and Research
  • Pages:1638-a–1639
  • Published Online:1 December 2002

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.53.12.1638-a

December 2002
The Creation of Psychopharmacology
  • Pages:1639–1640
  • Published Online:1 December 2002

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.53.12.1639

December 2002
Treatment of Depression: Bridging the 21st Century
  • Pages:1640–1641
  • Published Online:1 December 2002

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.53.12.1640

December 2002
Care of the Mentally Disordered Offender in the Community
  • Page:1641
  • Published Online:1 December 2002

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.53.12.1641

December 2002
Schizophrenia
  • Pages:1641-a–1642
  • Published Online:1 December 2002

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.53.12.1641-a

December 2002
The Violence and Addiction Equation: Theoretical and Clinical Issues in Substance Abuse and Relationship Violence
  • Page:1642
  • Published Online:1 December 2002

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.53.12.1642

December 2002
A Textbook of Forensic Addiction Medicine and Psychiatry
  • Pages:1642-a–1643
  • Published Online:1 December 2002

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.53.12.1642-a

December 2002
Stigma: How We Treat Outsiders
  • Page:1643
  • Published Online:1 December 2002

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.53.12.1643

News & Notes
December 2002
  • Pages:1644–1645
  • Published Online:1 December 2002

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.53.12.1644