{"title":"Congressional briefing calls attention to mental health needs of African Americans.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":75910,"journal":{"name":"Hospital & community psychiatry","volume":"45 8","pages":"837-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18978063","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"State purchasing cooperatives for psychotropic medication.","authors":"M S Swartz, A B Santos","doi":"10.1176/ps.45.8.741","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.45.8.741","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":75910,"journal":{"name":"Hospital & community psychiatry","volume":"45 8","pages":"741"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1176/ps.45.8.741","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18977027","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Behavioral group therapy.","authors":"A Kopelowicz, R P Liberman","doi":"10.1176/ps.45.8.829","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.45.8.829","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":75910,"journal":{"name":"Hospital & community psychiatry","volume":"45 8","pages":"829-30"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1176/ps.45.8.829","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18978059","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"What CMHCs can learn from two states' efforts to capitate Medicaid benefits.","authors":"J B Christianson, D Z Gray","doi":"10.1176/ps.45.8.777","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.45.8.777","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>If the Clinton health care reform package becomes law, community mental health centers will face challenges similar to those recently encountered by centers in several states under new Medicaid initiatives to capitate payments for mental health care. The authors summarize experiences and research findings from centers in two states using two different models: in Minnesota, a mainstreaming model in which Medicaid contracted with health maintenance organizations (HMOs) to provide all physical and mental health care for its beneficiaries, and in Utah, a mental health HMO model in which community mental health centers signed contracts to serve as mental health HMOs for Medicaid beneficiaries. Several implications for CMHCs under managed competition are discussed, including the need for centers to play a strong, proactive role in the establishment of benefit alternatives and enrollment processes and the need to implement aggressive policies to manage service utilization.</p>","PeriodicalId":75910,"journal":{"name":"Hospital & community psychiatry","volume":"45 8","pages":"777-81"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1176/ps.45.8.777","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18981649","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Continuous quality improvement: conceptual foundations and application to mental health care.","authors":"G D Chowanec","doi":"10.1176/ps.45.8.789","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.45.8.789","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Continuous quality improvement (CQI), a philosophy and a set of techniques for managing the quality of services in health care, involves procedures for defining an organization's goals and work processes and applying quantitative measures of quality focused on patient outcome. To successfully adapt CQI to specific mental health care settings, staff must understand the attitude, approach, and processes that distinguish CQI and must address the challenges of defining quality within mental health care and coordinating the efforts of multidisciplinary treatment teams. After detailing the development of the conceptual underpinnings of CQI, the author uses an example of implementation of CQI on a unit for chronic mentally ill patients at a state psychiatric hospital to show how these challenges can be addressed by reconceptualizing and specifying the treatment mission.</p>","PeriodicalId":75910,"journal":{"name":"Hospital & community psychiatry","volume":"45 8","pages":"789-93"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1176/ps.45.8.789","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18981651","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Jail recidivism and receipt of community mental health services.","authors":"P Solomon, J Draine, A Meyerson","doi":"10.1176/ps.45.8.793","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.45.8.793","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>The authors' aim was to test the relationship between receipt of desired community mental health services by homeless mentally ill forensic clients and whether the clients returned to jail within six months.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Mentally ill homeless clients leaving jail were randomly assigned to three service conditions: intensive case management provided by an assertive community treatment team, intensive case management provided by individual case managers, and referral to a community mental health center. Data on whether clients' service needs were met were analyzed using discriminant function and chi square analyses.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Thirty-two percent of the 105 clients interviewed at six months were reincarcerated during the six-month study period. Jail recidivism was related to receipt of fewer services that clients reported they needed, specifically to receipt of fewer services for developing independent living skills. Service condition was not significantly related to return to jail.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Case management, a flexible community-based service that does not lend itself to clearly prescribed procedures, may easily deteriorate into providing monitoring rather than rehabilitative services for forensic clients and thus may facilitate reincarceration.</p>","PeriodicalId":75910,"journal":{"name":"Hospital & community psychiatry","volume":"45 8","pages":"793-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1176/ps.45.8.793","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18981652","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Characteristics of African-American and white patients with panic disorder and agoraphobia.","authors":"S Friedman, C M Paradis, M Hatch","doi":"10.1176/ps.45.8.798","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.45.8.798","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>The authors explored the clinical characteristics and treatment response of African-American and white patients with panic disorder and agoraphobia who presented for treatment at an anxiety disorders clinic.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>One hundred white and 43 African-American patients were evaluated using a structured interview and completed a variety of standardized rating scales. In addition, data regarding clinical characteristics, psychiatric history, childhood history, life stressors, and treatment outcome were obtained by chart review. The incidence of isolated sleep paralysis was also assessed in a subsample of patients.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The two groups had no significant differences in psychiatric symptoms. African-American patients were more likely to use a medical emergency room, to have had childhood separations, and to have had parents who abused substances. They also reported less separation anxiety, school phobia, and affective illness in family members. In addition, African Americans, both patients and nonclinical control subjects, were more likely to report that they experienced repetitive episodes of isolated sleep paralysis. Treatment outcome was moderately successful among both African-American patients and white patients.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Although African-American and white patients show similar symptoms of panic disorder, African-American patients had more unnecessary psychiatric hospitalizations, a higher rate of medical emergency room visits, a higher incidence of isolated sleep paralysis, greater likelihood of childhood trauma, and a greater number of life stressors. Addressing these issues in treatment is critical in reducing the dropout rate and maintaining successful treatment.</p>","PeriodicalId":75910,"journal":{"name":"Hospital & community psychiatry","volume":"45 8","pages":"798-803"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1176/ps.45.8.798","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18981653","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Wilhelm Griesinger and the concept of community care in 19th-century Germany.","authors":"W Rössler, A Riecher-Rössler, U Meise","doi":"10.1176/ps.45.8.818","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.45.8.818","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Wilhelm Griesinger, a 19th-century German physician, can be considered one of the founders of the concept of community-based care for mentally ill patients. In an era when such patients typically spent most of their lives in asylums in remote rural areas, be recommended their integration into society and proposed that short-term treatment of acutely ill patients could be carried out in asylums that were located in cities and linked to general hospitals. He believed that short-term hospitalization could be effective only if professional and natural support systems cooperated closely. Although he did not assume that all mental illnesses could be cured, he thought that most patients should be discharged from long-term treatment in remote asylums. For those unable to live without support in the community, be suggested setting up sheltered living conditions. Although his ideas about community-based care were rejected by his contemporaries in favor of a system of rural asylums, many of Dr. Griesinger's suggestions are now being put into practice.</p>","PeriodicalId":75910,"journal":{"name":"Hospital & community psychiatry","volume":"45 8","pages":"818-22"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1176/ps.45.8.818","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18978055","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Making clozapine available.","authors":"A S Young, J V Vaccaro","doi":"10.1176/ps.45.8.831-a","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.45.8.831-a","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":75910,"journal":{"name":"Hospital & community psychiatry","volume":"45 8","pages":"831-2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1176/ps.45.8.831-a","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18978062","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}