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TL;DR: A study of 34 concentration camp survivor families treated for a six-month period in family therapy describes the effects of this traumatic experience on the second generation, and discusses the possible consequences for future generations.
Abstract: A study of 34 concentration camp survivor families treated for a six-month period in family therapy describes the effects of this traumatic experience on the second generation, and discusses the possible consequences for future generations. Results of various styles of therapeutic interventions are reported, and implications are discussed.

32 citations


Book
01 Jan 1974
TL;DR: The preface to Fifth Edition Part I: General Principles states that psychoactive substance use and social and psychological aspects of drug treatment Part II: Clinical Applications, and the management of overdosage of centrally acting drugs, are general principles.
Abstract: Preface to Fifth Edition Part I: General Principles 1. Historical introduction 2. Pharmacology of central nervous system transmission 3. Factors influencing the action of psychotic drugs 4. Methods of studying behavioural effects of drugs 5. Social and psychological aspects of drug treatment Part II: Clinical Applications 6. Schizophrenia 7. Affective disorders 8. Anxiety disorders 9. Organic psychiatric syndromes 10. Disorders of personality and behaviour 11. Disorders due to psychoactive substance use (Substance-related disorders) 12. Sleep disturbance 13. Disorders of appetite and body weight 14. Centrally acting drugs in the elderly 15. Child psychiatry 16. The management of overdosage of centrally acting drugs

32 citations


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TL;DR: It is suggested that analysis in depth at two points of this paradigm, the entry to care and the outcomes of care, are the most likely to reveal the basis of failures.
Abstract: Evaluation of health care is equated with the intent to continuously improve rather than to control its quality. Quality is seen as being affected by and therefore embracing 1) patient's health status and attitudes on entry to care, 2) suitability of the delivery machinery (structure), 3) application of care (process), and 4) outcomes of application to care. It is suggested that analysis in depth at two points of this paradigm, the entry to care and the outcomes of care, are the most likely to reveal the basis of failures. These may largely reside with the patient, the health care delivery structure, or the inability of the patient and care deliverer to perform together appropriately. These suggest the kind of interventions most likely to provide good results in the future. Such interventions or changes are very likely to call for significant changes in many social institutions, including that of the health care delivery machinery. Focusing on process is seen as contributing to professional education but less likely to result in meaningful changes because it works on the assumption that what the professional in a given illness cycle offers is the main factor in achieving better quality care.

31 citations



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TL;DR: Findings revealed that only 15% were aware of the existence of the parent agency, with no differences among local centers, and suggestions are offered for raising the level of awareness via outreach techniques especially with respect to emergency interventions.
Abstract: One hundred eighty residents living within 1/2 mile of local satellites of a community mental health center were randomly selected for a telephone survey. Findings revealed that only 15% were aware of the existence of the parent agency, with no differences among local centers. Residents' awareness of the satellite centers and their services ranged from 18% to 62% with an overall mean of 32%. Questions are raised with respect to relevant differences contributing to the residents' differential awareness of the centers and suggestions are offered for raising the level of awareness via outreach techniques especially with respect to emergency interventions.

19 citations


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TL;DR: It remains the position of this paper that behavior theory offers the potential for conceptualizing the individual's interaction with his environment and the behaviorally oriented mental health worker has several choices of intervention available to him.
Abstract: There are many professionals who are predicting the eventual demise of community mental health because of a failure to develop a relevant conceptual model for community intervention. It remains the position of this paper that behavior theory offers the potential for conceptualizing the individual's interaction with his environment. Further, the behaviorally oriented mental health worker has several choices of intervention available to him. These models or choices are described and recommendations for the enhancement of community mental health service delivery are presented.


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William E. Block1
TL;DR: Marked discrepancies or lack of consensus in beliefs were found to exist among professional disciplines, between service units, and within each category of the Community Mental Health Ideology Scale.
Abstract: The assumption that a common ideology is shared by the staff of a community mental health center was tested using the Community Mental Health Ideology Scale. The scores of three groups were analyzed—service directors, line staff, and student aides. Marked discrepancies or lack of consensus in beliefs were found to exist among professional disciplines, between service units, and within each category. The implications of these findings on center functioning are discussed, and recommendations for additional studies are suggested.

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TL;DR: This paper developed a psychiatric nurse consultation service in a city and county hospital because nurses throughout the hospital often called on us informally to help with problem patients, and since their interventions had been somewhat inconsistent, they decided to set up a more structured mental health consultation service to help staff nurses understand and work.
Abstract: We developed a psychiatric nurse consultation service in our city and county hospital because nurses throughout the hospital often called on us informally to help with problem patients. Some general hospital patients under emotional and physical stress can be considered a high risk group for developing symptoms of mental illness during or following hospitalization. By working with and through their natural caregivers, the staff nurses, we hoped to prevent psychiatric symptoms or the development of an illness process. Since our interventions had been somewhat inconsistent, we decided to set up a more structured mental health consultation service to help staff nurses understand and work



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TL;DR: Experimental studies of psychological interventions for potential dropouts (PDs) were comprehensively reviewed in this article, where they were loosely categorized according to type of intervention: counseling, counseling with other treatments, non-counseling psychological interventions, and multiple treatments in which the efficacy of counseling was compared with that of at least two other strategies.
Abstract: Experimental studies of psychological interventions for potential dropouts (PDs) were comprehensively reviewed. They were loosely categorized according to type of intervention: counseling; counseling with other treatments; non-counseling psychological interventions; and multiple treatments in which the efficacy of counseling was compared with that of at least two other strategies. Conclusions were difficult to draw because of the serious technical flaws in many of the studies and lack of methodological uniformity among studies. However, it was clear that these treatments could have impact, and there was evidence that the effective treatment for PDs may actually be friendly attention. It was suggested that this hypothesis be explored in further studies. BY VIRTUE of their position, school coun selors are frequently called upon to design and implement treatment programs for potential


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Thomas W. Miller1
01 Feb 1974
TL;DR: Holzberg, Knapp, and Turner as mentioned in this paper have emphasized the importance of assessing both the personality and attitudinal dimensions of nonprofessionals in the mental health field for the purpose of considering their contribution to developing outreach programs.
Abstract: Holzberg, Knapp, and Turner (1967) and others have emphasized the importance of assessing both the personality and attitudinal dimensions of non-professionals in the mental health field for the purpose of considering their contribution to developing outreach programs, As an estimate of one aspect of personality, the Locus of Control scale, (Rotter, 1966) was utilized, This scale is a 29 item forced choice scale which attempts to differentiate be~.


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TL;DR: By reading the theory and practice of psychotherapy with specific disorders, you can take more advantages with limited budget.


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TL;DR: I have tried to demonstrate how experiences with individual psychotherapy and milieu work within a mental hospital, over a number of years, have brought about an increasing understanding concerning the role of religion in the treatment of mental health problems.
Abstract: I have tried to demonstrate how experiences with individual psychotherapy and milieu work within a mental hospital, over a number of years, have brought about an increasing understanding concerning th