Taking Issue 

Arthur T. Meyerson

Why Are Community Psychiatrists Silent on Managed Care?

Psychiatr Serv 1999 50: 447 [Full Text] [PDF]

Articles 

Laura Weiss Roberts, John Battaglia, and Richard S. Epstein

Frontier Ethics: Mental Health Care Needs and Ethical Dilemmas in Rural Communities

Psychiatr Serv 1999 50: 497-503 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Roland Sturm and Ruth Klap

Use of Psychiatrists, Psychologists, and Master's-Level Therapists in Managed Behavioral Health Care Carve-Out Plans

Psychiatr Serv 1999 50: 504-508 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Rose Marie Friedrich, Brenda Hollingsworth, Elizabeth Hradek, H. Bruce Friedrich, and Kennith R. Culp

Family and Client Perspectives on Alternative Residential Settings for Persons With Severe Mental Illness

Psychiatr Serv 1999 50: 509-514 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Faith B. Dickerson, Norman Ringel, and Frederick Parente

Predictors of Residential Independence Among Outpatients With Schizophrenia

Psychiatr Serv 1999 50: 515-519 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

K. Ouidette Gasque-Carter and Mary B. Curlee

The Educational Needs of Families of Mentally Ill Adults: The South Carolina Experience

Psychiatr Serv 1999 50: 520-524 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Richard Barton

Psychosocial Rehabilitation Services in Community Support Systems: A Review of Outcomes and Policy Recommendations

Psychiatr Serv 1999 50: 525-534 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

F. M. Baker, Judy Stokes-Thompson, Orlando A. Davis, Rachael Gonzo, and Earl S. Hishinuma

Two-Year Outcomes of Psychosocial Rehabilitation of Black Patients With Chronic Mental Illness

Psychiatr Serv 1999 50: 535-539 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Wesley J. Kasprow, Linda Frisman, and Robert A. Rosenheck

Homeless Veterans' Satisfaction With Residential Treatment

Psychiatr Serv 1999 50: 540-545 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Gary J. Gerber and Pamela N. Prince

Measuring Client Satisfaction With Assertive Community Treatment

Psychiatr Serv 1999 50: 546-550 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Columns 

John Petrila

Law & Psychiatry: The Americans With Disabilities Act and Community-Based Treatment Law

Psychiatr Serv 1999 50: 473-480 [Full Text] [PDF]

Francine Cournos

Personal Accounts: A Psychiatrist Recalls Life as a Foster Child

Psychiatr Serv 1999 50: 479-480 [Full Text] [PDF]

Milton P. Huang and Norman E. Alessi

Clinical Computing: Challenges of the World Wide Web

Psychiatr Serv 1999 50: 483-491 [Full Text] [PDF]

Joyce Y. Chung, Ana P. Suarez, Deborah A. Zarin, and Harold Alan Pincus

Datapoints: Psychiatric Patients and HIV

Psychiatr Serv 1999 50: 487 [Full Text] [PDF]

K. Roy MacKenzie

Managed Care: Canada: A Kinder, Gentler Health Care System?

Psychiatr Serv 1999 50: 489-491 [Full Text] [PDF]

Brief Reports 

Lisa Dixon, Howard Goldman, and Abdighani Hirad

State Policy and Funding of Services to Families of Adults With Serious and Persistent Mental Illness

Psychiatr Serv 1999 50: 551-553 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Enola K. Proctor, Nancy Morrow-Howell, Eugene Rubin, and Matthew Ringenberg

Service Use by Elderly Patients After Psychiatric Hospitalization

Psychiatr Serv 1999 50: 553-555 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Mary F. Brunette, Stanley D. Rosenberg, Lisa A. Goodman, Kim T. Mueser, Fred C. Osher, Robert Vidaver, Patricia Auciello, George L. Wolford, and Robert E. Drake

HIV Risk Factors Among People With Severe Mental Illness in Urban and Rural Areas

Psychiatr Serv 1999 50: 556-558 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Michael R. Berren, José M. Santiago, Michael R. Zent, and Charles P. Carbone

Health Care Utilization by Persons With Severe and Persistent Mental Illness

Psychiatr Serv 1999 50: 559-561 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Haya Ascher-Svanum

Development and Validation of a Measure of Patients' Knowledge About Schizophrenia

Psychiatr Serv 1999 50: 561-563 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Letters 

Ewald Horwath and Francine Cournos

NMS and HIV

Psychiatr Serv 1999 50: 564 [Full Text] [PDF]

Anthony L. Pelonero, James L. Levenson, and Anand K. Pandurangi

NMS and HIV

Psychiatr Serv 1999 50: 564 [Full Text] [PDF]

Francis T. Varghese and Brian J. Kelly

Physician-Assisted Suicide

Psychiatr Serv 1999 50: 564-565 [Full Text] [PDF]

Barbara A. Olevitch

Physician-Assisted Suicide

Psychiatr Serv 1999 50: 565-566 [Full Text] [PDF]

Ron L. P. Berghmans

Physician-Assisted Suicide

Psychiatr Serv 1999 50: 566 [Full Text] [PDF]

Robert A. Schoevers, Frank P. Asmus, and Willem Van Tilburg

Physician-Assisted Suicide

Psychiatr Serv 1999 50: 566 [Full Text] [PDF]

E. Fuller Torrey

Medication Compliance

Psychiatr Serv 1999 50: 566-567 [Full Text] [PDF]

Virginia Aldigé Hiday, Jeffrey W. Swanson, and H. Ryan Wagner

Medication Compliance

Psychiatr Serv 1999 50: 567 [Full Text] [PDF]

Frank T. Rafferty

A Note on Competition and Profit in Medical Care

Psychiatr Serv 1999 50: 567-568 [Full Text] [PDF]

Rajnish Mago, Richard Petty, and Paul Root Wolpe

Placebos in Research

Psychiatr Serv 1999 50: 568 [Full Text] [PDF]

Book Reviews 

Barbara Dickey

Cost-Outcome Methods for Mental Health

Psychiatr Serv 1999 50: 569-570 [Full Text] [PDF]

Carl C. Bell

Youth Violence: Prevention, Intervention, and Social Policy

Psychiatr Serv 1999 50: 570-571 [Full Text] [PDF]

William Vogel

Case Studies in Couple and Family Therapy: Systemic and Cognitive Perspectives • Essential Skills in Family Therapy: From the First Interview to Termination • Burnout in Families: The Systemic Costs of Caring • The Practical Practice of Marriage and Family Therapy: Things My Training Supervisor Never Told Me

Psychiatr Serv 1999 50: 571-572 [Full Text] [PDF]

Anne C. Bauer

Trauma Recovery and Empowerment: A Clinician's Guide for Working With Women in Groups

Psychiatr Serv 1999 50: 572-573 [Full Text] [PDF]

Mark C. Radosta

Intensive Outpatient Treatment for the Addictions

Psychiatr Serv 1999 50: 573-574 [Full Text] [PDF]

Davina Miller

Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia

Psychiatr Serv 1999 50: 574 [Full Text] [PDF]

News & Notes 

NEWS & NOTES

Psychiatr Serv 1999 50: 575-577 [Full Text] [PDF]