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B Rosen

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PubMed1979

Comparison of the clinical effectiveness of "short" versus "long" stay psychiatric hospitalization. IV. Predictors of differential benefit.

One hundred seventy-three patients were randomly assigned to LT (long term, unlimited length of stay, mean 179 days) vs. ST (short term, 90-day limit) psychiatric hospitalization. Three-year follow-up results showed few between-group differences, although LT patients tended to be rehospitalized more and had superior relative ratings of psychopathology. Demographic and clinical data did not predict differential benefit from LT or ST hospitalization. Diagnosis did not generally predict differential benefit either, except that clinically diagnosed personality disorders, given LT as opposed to ST hospitalization, had poorer role functioning and less psychiatric treatments after discharge. Patients with a history of drug abuse did worse if given LT hospitalization in terms of role functioning and rehospitalization. Overall, this study agrees with other relevant studies in indicating that hospitalization should be kept as short as feasible.

Adjustment Disorders↗
PubMed1979

A method of structured brief psychotherapy.

Structured brief psychotherapy is a method of organizing treatment along problem-solving lines. The features of this method are the selection of problem areas, the translation of insight into specific activity, the structuring of psychodynamics and a concentration on termination events. The method is illustrated by clinical examples.

Adult↗
PubMed1978

Contract therapy.

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Behavior Therapy↗
PubMed1978

Haloperidol and thiothixene in the long-term treatment of chronic schizophrenic outpatients in an urban community: social and vocational adjustment.

Social and vocational adjustment are highly important--but frequently overlooked--measures of the effectiveness of psychotropic agents in therapeutic regimens involving chronic schizophrenic outpatients. This 24-week, double-blind study compared the effectiveness of haloperidol and thiothixene in facilitating social and vocational adjustment, as well as in controlling more traditionally studied psychopathological parameters, among 36 urban schizophrenic outpatients. Significant improvement favoring thiothixene was shown on physicians' ratings, ratings by relatives living in the same household as the patient, and patients' self-ratings. Side effects occurred with similar frequency in both drug groups; no patients were required to discontinue therapy because of side effects. There were no clinically significant abnormalities in laboratory values in either group.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1977

Community residents and mental health center staff: assessment of program and priorities.

Mental health professionals have emphasized the importance of establishing priorities and goals and gearing the delivery of mental health services to the needs of area residents. Sound View-Throgs Neck Community Mental Health Center of New York has made such an effort to involve the community residents and the mental health center staff in establishing priorities for development of the new program for services in the community. We have outlined the methods of gathering such information, and implementation of the conclusions derived from the survey which has resulted in developing comprehensive children's services and a geriatric program in our catchment area.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1977

Death and injury of Staphytococcus aureus during thermal treatment of milk.

Staphylococcus aureus isolated from milk and grown in milk was heated in milk. The phenomena of death as well as injury was investigated in the range of 50 to 75 degrees C. The D60 value (decimal reduction time on salt-free medium) was 0.87 min, the D'60 value (decimal reduction time in salt-containing medium) was 0.62 min. Cultures were injured as soon as heating started. This initial thermal shock increased with increasing temperature. At 50-60 degrees C injury was more rapid than death. At greater than 60 degrees C death became faster than injury and the two processes coincided at 70 degrees C. The Z value was 9.46 degrees C and the Z' value was 9.93 degrees C.

Animals↗
PubMed1976

Clinical effectiveness of "short" vs "long" psychiatric hospitalization. I. Inpatient results.

To evaluate the clinical effectiveness of short-term (three month maximum length of stay) and long-term (discharge based on clinical judgement) hospitalization, the inhospital course of 68 "short-" and 58 "long-term" psychiatric patients was studied. The results indicate that patients assigned without bias to short-term patterns, however, indicated that these results could be entirely accounted for by the significantly greater use of group therapy as an additional treatment modality in the short-term units. The need for a more systematic exploration of the effect of restricted hospital stay on the treatment patterns of the clinician and the effect of these differential treatment patterns on inhospital improvement is emphasized. The necessity for follow-up data to gain a complete picture of these treatment contrasts is clear.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1976

Analogy tests and psychopathology at follow-up after open heart surgery.

A study of 100 coronary bypass and cardiac valvular surgery patients investigated whether preoperative brain damage, as measured by the Conceptual Level Analogy Test (CLAT), is a major risk factor for postoperative psychiatric symptoms and mortality. Three cognitive psychological tests, including the CLAT, and psychatric interviews were given preoperatively, postoperatively, and at 18-month follow-up. Surgical outcome was specified as: Catastrophic Outcome (death or severe stroke), Psychiatric Complications, or Good Outcome (survival with no psychiatric complications). Inhospital outcome related significantly to analogy test scores, as did both surgical procedure and diagnosis of rheumatic heart disease. However, long-term outcome was unrelated to medical diagnosis and only weakly related to surgical procedure, but highly significantly related to preoperative analogy scores. The CLAT was a more consistent predictor of both short- and long-term outcome than any of the other ten variables considered (medical and surgical variables, inhospital outcome, demographic measures, other psychological tests).

Brain↗