Reanalyzed data from 1983 prospective study of suicide in cohort of 4,800 psychiatric inpatients using logistic regression. Results were same as in previous study: too few of the subsequent suicides were identified and there were too many false positives to make procedure useful. Additional artificial logistic regression analyses helped but fell…

Contrasts dreams of suicidal patients to those of nonsuicidal, depressed patients. Notes that dreams of suicidal patients often reveal wishes for revenge, punishment, reunion, fusion, and rebirth and that confusions between patient's body and that of others are suggested by dreams of some suicidal patients. Discusses phenomenon of transparency in…

Administered Beck Scale for Suicide Ideation (BSI) to 108 adolescent inpatients diagnosed with mixed psychiatric disorders. Examined relationships of Beck Depression Inventory, Anxiety Inventory, and Hopelessness Scale with BSI. Results support use of BSI with adolescent inpatients. Findings indicated that hopelessness was related to suicidal…

Objective: To compare the efficacy of a skills-based treatment protocol to a supportive relationship therapy for adolescents after a suicide attempt. Method: Thirty-nine adolescents (12-17 years old) and parents who presented to a general pediatric emergency department or inpatient unit of a child psychiatric hospital after a suicide attempt were…

This research examined goal attainment as it is related to client stability in the process of counseling adolescents admitted to a crisis residence. Data were collected from licensed master's-level clinicians treating adolescent clients admitted to an acute care psychiatric program at 1 of 2 hospitals located in the mid-South. There was a…

Studies indicate that the impact of family involvement may be the most important predictor of successful psychiatric hospitalization of adolescents. Yet the ability to engage both an adolescent and his or her family in family therapy in the context of what is often an involuntary hospitalization is a major challenge. A number of promising…

Presents a social work model for building a family-institution alliance as distinguished from a therapeutic alliance. The model is based on a conceptualization of the family's needs at four successive stages in the early period of its relationship with the institution. (JAC)

Evaluated two different taped relaxation training programs with 39 psychiatric inpatients, half of whom received minor tranquilizers in conjunction with relaxation training. The enhanced relaxation program produced slightly more therapeutic effects than the standard training program. Significant differences were found between the medicated and the…

Tabulated data suggests the marginality of vocational functioning, as well as the low economic status associated with hospitalization. Study does not attempt pre and post hospital vocational comparisons. (CJ)

A schedule was developed for assessing the future outlook of hospitalized psychiatric patients and administered to samples of patients from two different hospitals. A factor analysis was done for each sample. (CK)

Follow-up of 10 schizophrenic children admitted to a child psychiatric unit revealed that outcome was related to such factors as age of onset, and clinical subtype. Deterioration following the active phase of the illness occurred in only four cases, indicating that the outcome may be more favorable than generally assumed. (Author)

Reports on epidemic of six inpatient suicides in Finnish psychiatric hospital. Notes that suggestion and identification had effect on timing and method of four of six suicides. Views epidemic from individual, network, and organizational perspectives. Speculates on how such epidemics could be avoided. (Author/NB)

Describes study examining admissions to adolescent psychiatry inpatient units. Seven diagnostic groups accounted for 90% of admissions. Treatment programs included external resources and agencies. 67 percent of admissions led to "completed treatment." Suggests type of diagnosis, not reliance upon elective admissions, reduced likelihood…

Administered Dysfunctional Attitude Scale (DAS), Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), Hopelessness Scale (BHS), Self-Concept Test (BST), and Scale for Suicide Ideation (SSI) to 908 psychiatric outpatients. Found that none of DAS subscales discriminated ideators and nonideators or was significantly related to SSI total scores of suicide ideators after…