The Unnoticed Majority in Psychiatric Inpatient Care
This book is a research mono graph reporting empirical results, but we have tried to place the data in a very broad national perspective. Our intent is a volume on mental health policy in the United States, most notably our de facto policies, as indicated by empirical data. The book gives a broad pe...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY
Springer US
1993, 1993
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1993 |
| Series: | Springer Series on Stress and Coping
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction: Where We Are Going and What We Will Find
- 2. Hospitalization for Mental and Other Disorders
- 3. Public Policy Issues Affecting Psychiatric Inpatient Treatment
- 4. The National Context: The De Facto System of Psychiatric Inpatient Care
- 5. Methods
- 6. The Baseline and Overall Data from 1980
- 7. Predicting Hospital Length of Stay for Psychiatric Inpatients
- 8. Who Is Treated in Psychiatric Scatter Beds in General Hospitals? An Imputational Algorithm
- 9. Changes in Site and Development of Quasi-Units
- 10. Who Pays? And to Whom?
- 11. Case Mix and Dual Diagnoses
- 12. The Psychiatric Inpatient Treatment of Children and Youth in General Hospitals
- 13. The Psychiatric Inpatient Treatment of the Elderly
- 14. Psychiatric Inpatient Treatment of the Disabled
- 15. Effects of Hospital Exemption from the Prospective Payment System
- 16. Summary of Empirical Findings
- 17. Some Scientific and Research Issues
- 18. Some Public Policy Issues
- 19. General Conclusions
- References
- Author Index