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Criminal Law , Jurisprudence , Mental Disorders , Commitment of Mentally Ill , Criminology , Humans , Insanity Defense , Mental Disorders/diagnosis , TexasSubject(s)
Child Health Services , Hospitals, Psychiatric , Mental Health Services , Adolescent , Affective Symptoms/therapy , Child , Delivery of Health Care , Humans , TexasSubject(s)
Dangerous Behavior/psychology , Prisoners , Violence/psychology , Adult , Female , Hospitals, Psychiatric , Humans , Male , Personality Tests , Pilot Projects , TexasABSTRACT
Partly as the result of legislative changes made in 1975 and 1977, Texas has a workable system for dealing with mentally abnormal offenders and assessing the dangerousness of committed offenders. The author summarizes provisions of the law related to pretrial evaluation, competency to stand trial, dispositions after a ruling of incompetency, and the insanity defense. He describes the activities, during the first two years, of multidisciplinary review boards for manifest dangerousness; the boards met monthly to assess the dangerousness of patients committed to a state hospital's maximum-security unit after rulings of incompetency (without the probability of attaining competency in a foreseeable period) or of not guilty by reason of insanity. During the two years, the boards declared 171 of 364 patients to be not manifestly dangerous and thus ready for transfer or release, but they became more conservative in making judgments of not dangerous as time passed.
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Dangerous Behavior , Forensic Psychiatry , Mental Disorders/diagnosis , Mental Health Services/organization & administration , Violence , Adult , Humans , Mental Health Services/legislation & jurisprudence , Prisoners , Professional Staff Committees/legislation & jurisprudence , TexasABSTRACT
Alcoholics who recieved 10 hours of assertiveness training scored significantly higher than control and minimal training groups on three measures of assertiveness.
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Alcoholism/therapy , Behavior Therapy/methods , Social Behavior , Evaluation Studies as Topic , Female , Humans , Male , Middle AgedSubject(s)
Hospitals, Psychiatric , Mental Disorders/diagnosis , Personality Inventory , Adolescent , Adult , Affective Disorders, Psychotic/diagnosis , Alcoholism/diagnosis , Child Behavior Disorders/diagnosis , Ethnicity , Female , Humans , Length of Stay , Male , Neurocognitive Disorders/diagnosis , Neurotic Disorders/diagnosis , Schizophrenia/diagnosis , Social Class , Substance-Related Disorders/diagnosisABSTRACT
The Draw A Person test has continued to be one of the most frequently utilized psychological tests with children and adolescents. This is especially true for the child/adolescent populations in state hospitals. Because of the frequent criticism leveled against the DAP's validity, this study was undertaken in order to provide normative data for the DAP with this particular clinical population. Previous research has focused on the drawings of the same sex as the subjects; this study deals with the characteristics of the drawings of the opposite sex. The subjects were 84 male and 66 female psychiatric patients from the Adolescent Unit (AU) at Rusk State Hospital. As each patient was admitted to the AU, he was scheduled for psychological testing, with the DAP, the Revised Beta, and the MMPI being a part of this testing. The results of this study indicate that IQ ranking is the most significant factor affecting DAP test performance by male subjects. IQ ranking was not found to significantly influence the drawings by females. Neither MMPI test performance nor social background factors were shown to significantly affect DAP test performance. It is suggested that in order for the DAP to become a more objectively utilized personality technique, a scoring method should be developed that takes into account the overall quality of the drawing in conjunction with the individual details of each area of the figure drawn. More focus should also be given to the characteristics of the opposite-sex figure drawn by the subjects and its potential interpretation.
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Intelligence Tests , Mental Disorders , Adjustment Disorders , Adolescent , Adult , Analysis of Variance , Brain Damage, Chronic , Demography , Educational Status , Ethnicity , Female , Hospitals, Psychiatric , Humans , Length of Stay , Male , Marriage , Neurotic Disorders , Occupations , Personality Disorders , Schizophrenia , Schizophrenia, Paranoid , Socioeconomic Factors , Substance-Related Disorders , SuicideSubject(s)
Child Health Services/supply & distribution , Mental Health Services/supply & distribution , Adolescent , Adult , Child , Child Development , Child, Preschool , Community Mental Health Services/supply & distribution , Hospitalization , Hospitals, Psychiatric , Humans , Mental Disorders/epidemiology , Mental Disorders/therapy , Texas , United StatesABSTRACT
Because of the increasing number of adolescents being admitted to state hospitals, because of the continuing need for appropriate testing materials for these patients, and because of the frequent criticism leveled against the DAP's validity, this study was undertaken in order to provide normative data for the DAP with this particular clinical population. The subjects were 84 male and 66 female psychiatric patients from the Adolescent Unit (AU) at Rusk State Hospital. As each patient was admitted to the AU, he was scheduled for psychological testing, with the DAP, the Revised Beta, and the MMPI being part of this testing. The results of this study indicate that the social factors of Ethnicity and Work Habits are significantly related to DAP test performance by male subjects, while Diagnosis is significantly related to DAP test performance by female subjects. A subject's performance on the MMPI and the Revised Beta Examination was not found to be significantly related to his performance on the DAP.
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MMPI , Mental Disorders/diagnosis , Personality Inventory , Adolescent , Adult , Evaluation Studies as Topic , Female , Hospitals, Psychiatric , Humans , Male , Middle Aged , Personality Assessment , PsychometricsSubject(s)
Mental Disorders/therapy , Adolescent , Adult , Female , Hospitalization , Hospitals, Psychiatric , Humans , Male , Professional-Patient Relations , Psychotherapy , Recreation , Social Behavior , TexasABSTRACT
Because of the increasing number of adolescents being admitted to state hospitals and because of the lack of sufficient information regarding the use of the MMPI with these patients, this study was undertaken in order to provide normative data for the MMPI with this particular clinical population. The subjects were 113 male and 97 female psychiatric patients from the Adolescent Unit (AU) at Rusk State Hospital (RSH). As each patient was admitted to the AU, he was scheduled for psychological testing, with the MMPI being a part of this testing. The results indicate that, with this particular psychiatric population, background variables had no significant relationship to MMPI performance. The validity scales were characterized by an extremely elevated F scale for males and females, while male and female performance on the clinical scales showed elevation (above T score of 70) on the Pd and Sc scales. In conclusion, it seems that the most outstanding characteristic of young state hospital patients on the MMPI is extreme elevation on the Pd and Sc scales and the F scale. In interpreting the MMPI, it would seem necessary then to reevaluate the meaning being associated with these scales, especially the F scale, when dealing with this particular psychiatric population.
