A Note on the use of the 1937 Revision of the Stanford Binet Vocabulary List in Mental Hospital Patients

1940 ◽  
Vol 86 (362) ◽  
pp. 532-533 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. B. Brody
Keyword(s):  
Mental Hospital ◽  
Vocabulary Test ◽  
Single Test ◽  
Mental Hospitals ◽  
Hospital Patients ◽  
Vocabulary List

The Terman vocabulary test is probably used in mental hospitals more often than any other single test for measuring intelligence. The 1937 Stanford Binet Vocabulary List contains only 45 words selected from the original hundred. There is therefore a temptation to use it in place of the old one on account of its brevity. But this may cause serious errors.

Preliminary Tuberculosis Survey in a Mental Hospital

1946 ◽  
Vol 92 (386) ◽  
pp. 96-109 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donal F. Early
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Mental Hospital ◽  
Psychiatric Treatment ◽  
Hospital Staff ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Public ◽  
Mental Hospitals ◽  
Number Of Patients ◽  
Hospital Patients ◽  
Disproportionate Number

The problem of tuberculosis amongst mental hospital patients is of importance from both the psychiatric and public health point of view. Most of the active methods of psychiatric treatment must be abandoned or discontinued when physical illness intervenes. The problem is even more far-reaching from the standpoint of public health. Wingfield, Trail, Banks and McDougall (1942) have estimated that there is probably a reservoir of 250,000 infectious cases recognized and unrecognized in England, Scotland and Wales, and several authors have pointed out that mental hospitals contribute a disproportionate number to this reservoir. Modern methods of mental hospital administration with parole and leave privileges applied to the maximum number of patients lend importance to the public health aspect, not only the patients themselves and hospital staff being menaced, but also patients' visitors and relatives and other contacts outside hospital. The incidence of tuberculosis in mental hospitals has been variously estimated at 5 to 10 times and the mortality in peace-time 8 or 9 times that of the general population. These figures are sufficient to justify all efforts to bring the problem under control.

Community Psychiatry in London. A Three-Year Analysis

1969 ◽  
Vol 115 (521) ◽  
pp. 465-474 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. J. Oldham
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
General Hospital ◽  
Mental Hospital ◽  
Psychiatric Patients ◽  
Full Range ◽  
Admission Rate ◽  
Mental Hospitals ◽  
Hospital Units ◽  
Psychiatric Units ◽  
Hospital Patients

The decade following the end of World War II saw a progressive rise in the admission rate to mental hospitals in this country. The population of mental hospitals rose to a peak of 152,000 in England and Wales in 1954, since when there has been a steady decline. These fluctuations have been analysed by such authors as Norton (1961) and Tooth and Brooke (1961). The latter attributed the more recent decline to increased efficiency of treatment and rehabilitation, and predicted a continued fall so reducing the mental hospital patients by about 1970 that they would be covered by an allocation of 1 · 8 beds per thousand population. Maclay (1963) believed this prediction to err if anything on the conservative side and the Ministry of Health (1962) based its plans for psychiatric beds upon this ratio. In these plans the Ministry accepted the thesis that short-stay psychiatric patients should preferably be treated in general hospital units near to their homes whilst patients needing a longer hospital stay should be catered for in specialized hospitals for that purpose. The prediction in the Ministry of Health's Hospital Plan (1962) that there would be a steadily declining mental hospital population has been severely criticized by Gore and Jones (1961) but supported by Orwin and Sim (1965) in their analysis of the effects of the provision of acute general hospital psychiatric units in the Birmingham area. The importance of accurately assessing the psychiatric hospital bed needs over the next twenty years, given a full range medical and ancillary services, is vital to future planning and has been much in the author's mind when writing this paper.

Abilities of Male Mental Hospital Patients

1950 ◽  
Vol 96 (404) ◽  
pp. 726-733 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Halstead
Keyword(s):  
Great Improvement ◽  
Mental Hospital ◽  
Psychological Tests ◽  
Clinical Psychologists ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Large Samples ◽  
Mental Hospitals ◽  
Effective Age ◽  
Hospital Patients ◽  
Age Range

Before the the last war psychological tests were not much used in mental hospitals, as there were few tests suitable for adults and, for that matter, hardly any trained clinical psychologists in the country. The “Binet” test or some modification of it was most commonly used, but it is unsatisfactory for adults, and now redundant. The war produced a considerable number of reliable adult tests, standardized on large samples of service men and women, and, although the effective age-range was restricted by service requirements, the tests are a great improvement on pre-war material, and a welcome addition to the clinical psychologist's stock-in-trade.

Institutional Treatment of Mental Defectives, with Special Reference to Occupation

1925 ◽  
Vol 71 (295) ◽  
pp. 694-703 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. M. McCutcheon
Keyword(s):  
Special Reference ◽  
Mental Hospital ◽  
Lower Grade ◽  
Mental Hospitals ◽  
Social Traits ◽  
Institutional Treatment ◽  
The World ◽  
Hospital Patients ◽  
Mental Defectives

The problem of the treatment of defectives is somewhat different from that met with in regard to the patients in mental hospitals. In the case of mental hospital patients most of them have filled useful positions in the world, and also the percentage of possible recoveries is hopeful, and many of them are able to resume their former occupations. But mental defectives are social misfits, many with anti-social traits, others neglected and ill-treated, and again others of a much lower grade, many of whom are helpless and even cot-cases.

Changes in Duration of Stay of Mental Hospital Patients Suffering from Functional Psychoses During the Past 20 Years

1954 ◽  
Vol 100 (418) ◽  
pp. 241-249 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arthur Harris ◽  
Vera Norris
Keyword(s):  
Mental Hospital ◽  
County Council ◽  
The Past ◽  
Mental Hospitals ◽  
Functional Psychoses ◽  
Hospital Patients ◽  
Mental Treatment ◽  
Mental Defectives ◽  
Methods Of Treatment

We have reported a follow-up study of patients first admitted to London County Council Mental Hospitals in 1930 (Harris and Lubin, 1952, Harris and Norris, in press). The present paper deals with a group of similar patients, i.e., psychotics from whom epileptics, known organic cases, ascertained mental defectives, those over the age of 40 and those who had been admitted to a mental hospital previously were excluded, who were transferred to mental hospitals from St. Francis Observation Ward during the period May 1940 to May 1942. The main differences between this group and the 1930 one were: (a) The Mental Treatment Act of 1930 had come into operation and many were admitted to mental hospitals as voluntary patients; (b) modern physical methods of treatment were in use; (c) in most cases the history was known.

A Special Mental Hospital Unit for the Treatment of Psychosis and Neurosis in Juveniles

1953 ◽  
Vol 99 (414) ◽  
pp. 123-129 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dalton E. Sands
Keyword(s):  
Mental Hospital ◽  
Psychiatric Illness ◽  
Adult Patients ◽  
Hospital Unit ◽  
Hospital Practice ◽  
Special Unit ◽  
The Past ◽  
Mental Hospitals ◽  
End Results

Since the treatment of juveniles as in-patients in a special unit is somewhat unusual in mental hospital practice, a brief introduction may not be out of place. These units might be considered as another development in a trend which has been progressing for the past 25 years. Until 1930 certification of all admissions to mental hospitals and a mainly custodial régime ensured the majority of patients being largely the end-results of psychiatric illness. Since 1930 the steadily increasing use of the voluntary system has brought many patients to hospital at a stage when their illness can be favourably influenced by modern therapeutic methods. An associated development was the increased provision of wards or units separate from the chronically disturbed cases, or even, as at this hospital, a complete villa system of detached and semi-detached wards for mainly voluntary adult patients.

scholarly journals A Trial of Discharge and Aftercare of Long-stay Mental Hospital Patients

BMJ ◽  
1960 ◽  
Vol 2 (5196) ◽  
pp. 436-438
Author(s):  
J. C. N. Tibbits ◽  
W. B. Harbert
Keyword(s):  
Mental Hospital ◽  
Hospital Patients
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