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C N Zimet

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PubMed1995

Brief group treatment and managed mental health care.

There is increasing interest in the application of brief group psychotherapy to treat a wide variety of patient conditions. This paper reviews a selected set of controlled and comparison studies of brief, outpatient group treatment with adults, and considers findings that support the effectiveness of this approach. Authors discuss barriers to the use of brief group interventions and make recommendations regarding increased utilization of this approach in managed mental health settings.

Adult↗
PubMed1994

Psychology's role in a national health program.

Despite APA's virulent opposition to managed care, the reality is that with the forthcoming universal health coverage, managed care in some form is going to be central to whatever specific plan is adopted. The American Psychological Association has done the profession a great disservice by its unrelenting attacks on managed care. During the years that psychology could have played a role in shaping managed care, APA has sat on the sidelines simply carping at these new developments in the health care marketplace. Psychologists must recognize the reality of these changes and adapt to them, or we will find ourselves in the next 5 to 10 years in a health profession that time has passed by.

Cost Control↗
PubMed1989

The mental health care revolution. Will psychology survive?

Managed mental health care, which encompasses a wide variety of approaches, is a response to precipitous increases in health care expenditures, particularly as they relate to mental health care. The shift from what seemed certain to become a national health insurance program only 15 years ago to the profit-driven corporate health care industry of today is truly revolutionary. These profound changes are beginning to have a major impact on the independent practices of psychologists. In this article, psychologist practitioners are exhorted to recognize this new development in the marketplace. Data are cited that show the rapid shift from free choice care to various forms of managed care, and practitioners are urged to participate in shaping the changes that are now in process in order to develop a humane and effective system of mental health care.

Forecasting↗
PubMed1977

Female and male medical students: differences in specialty choice selection and personality.

Sex differences in specialty choices, specialty beliefs, and personality characteristics of female and male medical students were analyzed. Subjects included 95 female and 166 male medical students from the University of Colorado School of Medicine and the University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine. Results from a personality measure, the Adjective Check List, and from measures of students' beliefs as to status, similarity-to-self, and social desirability of various specialties revealed significant differences between men and women on specialty choice, ratings of status and social attractiveness of the specialties, and personality characteristics. It appears that for female medical students specialty choices and general personality characteristics have changed to less traditional and stereotypic positions in the past few years.

Analysis of Variance↗
PubMed1976

Problems and concerns among medical students--1975.

Students at the University of Colorado School of Medicine were surveyed using an inventory of problems and conerns relating to their personal and academic lives. Results were to provide a data base for improvement of their educational environment via the ecosystem design process. The survey revealed that chief among student conerns are a lack of personal freedom, excessive academic pressures, and feelings of dehumanization. A marked trend toward increasing difficulty with thoughts of having chosen the wrong profession is noted over the four class levels. The authors offer several hypotheses relating to the underlying conditions responsible for these findings and discuss their possible relation to the current malpractice insurance crisis.

Colorado↗
PubMed1975

The development of views of specialties during four years of medical school.

A total of 141 medical students at one medical school participated in a longitudinal study of medical specialty choice. Students indicated their choices in the freshman, sophomore, and senior years. They ranked specialties with respect to status and completed an adjective checklist for self and practitioners of five specialties. Measures of social attractiveness and similarity to self were applied for each specialty. Increasing numbers of students chose internal medicine over the four years. Pediatrics and psychiatry lost students, while family practice and surgery changed little between the first and fourth years. Surgery and medicine were ranked highest and family practice and psychiatry lowest as to status. Family practice was ranked highest and surgery lowest as to social attractiveness. In examining similarity to self, medical students regardless of specialty interest rated themselves as having traits similar to those they assigned to the family practitioner.

Attitude↗
PubMed1975

A longitudinal study of medical specialty choice and certainty level.

Two successive classes of entering medical students at the University of Colorado participated in a longitudinal study on the development of medical specialty choice. Students indicated specialty choices and their degree of certainty about them in the freshman, sophomore, and senior years. Results indicated that students were highly uncertain of their choices at the beginning of medical school but became very certain by graduation. Nearly three-fourths switched specialties between freshman and senior years. In general, there was no relationship between degree of certainty and switching. The exception occurred in family practice. The least specialty switching occurred with internal medicine and the most with psychiatry. Increasing numbers of students chose internal medicine over the four years.

Career Choice↗