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A Becker

Publications and source records attributed to A Becker.

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PubMed1976

Phasing out state hospitals -- a psychiatric dilemma.

Whether state hospitals have a role in caring for mentally ill persons has been intensely debated for the past decade. During this time the inpatient census of public mental hospitals has fallen dramatically from 490,000 to 215,000 owing to increasingly effective treatment programs for acutely and chronically psychotic patients. The vast majority of patients currently cared for in state hospitals could be adequately treated in the community if a comprehensive spectrum of psychiatric services and residential alternatives were established. The failure to establish this network of community services before the discharge of thousands of patients has discredited the deinstitutionalization programs in many states, including California and New York, and forced California to abandon its plan to phase out all its state hospitals. Thus, although phase out of state hospitals is clinically feasible, it is unlikely at present since the fiscal and ideologic commitment to shift to community-based treatment is lacking.

Acute Disease↗
PubMed1976

Planning the phasedown of mental hospitals.

With impending fiscal shortages limiting the growth of new community mental health services and the ability of mental hospitals to perform contemporary tasks remaining dubious, increased attention is being directed throughout the country to the role of state hospitals. Citizens and professionals in Massachusetts concluded that the needs of individuals now treated in mental hospitals are better met via community-based services as they become available than by services now provided in state hospitals. Consequently, public mental hospitals should be phased down over a 5-year period of time and their funds redeployed to community services. Among the factors affecting the success of this program shift are continuity of care for discharged patients, community acceptance of the mentally ill, and redeployment of personnel to community facilities.

Adult↗
PubMed1976

We help each other: primary prevention for the widowed.

The authors describe the inception and evolution of a program of primary prevention directed at widowed men and women. The program has four major components-the widowed (telephone) line, home visits, social gatherings, and community seminars. The various roles that the counselor plays in the program are illustrated in a case report. An informal follow-up survey of 100 participants in the program revealed that the vast majority of those served felt the program was of benefit to them.

Female↗
PubMed1975

Isolation of the bacteriophage lambda A-gene protein.

An in vitro assay for measuring the activity of the phage lambda A-gene product has been developed. The assay is based on the observation that A-donor extracts complement A minus extracts for packaging of exogenous immature lambda DNA into phage particles. A partial purification of the A-gene product activity using this assay is presented. A method is suggested by which this A protein-dependent in vitro system might be manipulated to analyze the mechanism of reforming the lambda cohesive termini during chromosome assimilation into phage precursors.

Centrifugation, Density Gradient↗