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D T Johnson

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PubMed1978

The community mental health center as a setting for a psychiatry junior clerkship.

The implementation of a psychiatric outpatient experience for a first class of junior medical students in a nonmedical model community mental health clinic is presented. The advantages and disadvantages of exposing students to a community-oriented, rather than a medical-center-oriented, treatment system are discussed in some detail. Differences between the two settings of particular import were the stress placed by the clinic upon team decision-making, diffuse responsibility for client care, a somewhat antimedical orientation, and treatment of clients whose complaints are more often "problems of living" rather than of psychiatric illness. It is felt that the positive aspects of such an exposure outweigh the negative ones and that by careful planning many of the potential drawbacks of such a setting for a psychiatric outpatient rotation can be successfully avoided.

Community Mental Health Centers↗
PubMed1978

The interpretative validity of the FAM: long-term psychotherapists' ratings of psychiatric inpatients.

Newmark, Conger, and Faschingbauer (1976) found a significant difference between mean ratings of MMPI and FAM (Faschingbauer's Abbreviated MMPI) based interpretations. Since this may have been specific to lack of rater experience, the present study attempted a replication using long-term psychotherapists as raters. The only significant difference was for 20 male psychiatric inpatients. Females (n = 16) and the pooled sample showed no significant differences between ratings regardless of the source test. When the present results are compared to those of Newmark, Conger and Faschinbauer (1976) and earlier work by Fashcinbauer (1973), it appears that the FAM yields interpretation as accurate as one would expect given its psychometric dissimilarity from the MMPI.

Female↗
PubMed1975

MMPI correlates of extreme field independence and field dependence in a psychiatric population.

34 male and 34 female hospitalized psychiatric patients were divided into field-independent and field-dependent groups on the basis of rod-and-frame test performance and their MMPI scores were compared. A multiple discriminant analysis followed by a series of 2 X 2 factorial analyses of variance was used to assess the results. As in previous studies, more similarities than differences were found between the two cognitive styles. However, field-independent subjects tended to be more unconventional, aggressive, antisocial, and perhaps defensive than field-dependent subjects. Explanations of results were explored in reference to previous findings.

Adult↗