The unnoticed majority in psychiatric inpatient care
By: Charles A. Kiesler, Celeste G. Simpkins
Contributors: Simpkins, Celeste G.
Series: The Plenum series on stress and coping; The language of science; Plenum series on stress and coping; Language of science
Publisher: Springer
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Boston, MA
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781489911094; 9781489911117
Subjects: Psychiatric hospital care; Government policy; Psychology; Community and Environmental Psychology
Description: This monograph reports empirical research on inpatient treatment in general hospitals in the United States within the broader contexts of the history of health policy (including mental health) in the United States, the effects of changes in costs and payment policies, mental disorders among special populations, changes in diagnoses and treatments, and evolving public policy issues. The issues raised profoundly effect professionals in mental health policy, planning, and treatment.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-246) and indexes.

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Table of contents: title: 1. Introduction: Where We Are Going and What We Will Find; title: 2. Hospitalization for Mental and Other Disorders; title: 3. Public Policy Issues Affecting Psychiatric Inpatient Treatment; title: 4. The National Context: The De Facto System of Psychiatric Inpatient Care; title: 5. Methods; title: 6. The Baseline and Overall Data from 1980; title: 7. Predicting Hospital Length of Stay for Psychiatric Inpatients; title: 8. Who Is Treated in Psychiatric Scatter Beds in General Hospitals? An Imputational Algorithm; title: 9. Changes in Site and Development of Quasi-Units; title: 10. Who Pays? And to Whom?; title: 11. Case Mix and Dual Diagnoses; title: 12. The Psychiatric Inpatient Treatment of Children and Youth in General Hospitals; title: 13. The Psychiatric Inpatient Treatment of the Elderly; title: 14. Psychiatric Inpatient Treatment of the Disabled; title: 15. Effects of Hospital Exemption from the Prospective Payment System; title: 16. Summary of Empirical Findings; title: 17. Some Scientific and Research Issues; title: 18. Some Public Policy Issues; title: 19. General Conclusions; title: References; title: Author Index.