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T L Kuhlman

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PubMed1990

Team use of the Global Assessment Scale for inpatient planning and evaluation.

A cost-effective team adaptation of the Global Assessment Scale (GAS) is used on the admitting ward of a state hospital. At admission staff meetings and at weekly progress review meetings, each member of the multidisciplinary team independently provides a GAS rating for each patient. The mean of each set of ratings becomes the patient's current team GAS score. The scores for individual patients, the changes in the scores over time, and the average scores for the ward offer a method for objectively expressing the patients' levels of functioning. Reliability and validity data supporting the method are reported. The team GAS format serves planning, evaluation, and research functions for individual patients and for the ward as a whole.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1988

Gallows humor for a scaffold setting: managing aggressive patients on a maximum-security forensic unit.

Gallows humor, as depicted in television shows such as MASH and Hill Street Blues, fulfills important psychological and sociological functions in maintaining therapeutic attitudes in the stressful and sometimes dangerous milieu of a maximum-security psychiatric unit. Humor provides an emotional language with which the unit's staff mark the sense of incongruity that characterizes their work. Staff invoke humor to move away from a macho attitude in their interactions with aggressive patients. Humor also bolsters staff solidarity through playful inversions of the usual patterns of authority.

Adaptation, Psychological↗
PubMed1987

Preventive aggression devices (PADS): ambulatory restraints as an alternative to seclusion.

The authors introduce an ambulatory restraint procedure developed for a specialized inpatient unit with repetitively aggressive patients. Preventive Aggression Devices (PADS) reduce the length and frequency of seclusion and humanely foster a safer, more therapeutic environment for patients requiring a highly controlled environment. Indications and contraindications for PADS are listed, and criteria for their use are described.

Aggression↗
PubMed1979

A validation study of the Draw-A-Person as a measure of racial identity acceptance.

The present study is a replication of Schofield's findings (1978) in the use of the Draw-A-Person as a measure of racial identity acceptance. Unlike Schofield's study, the present investigation involved an adolescent sample of blacks and whites, and race of figure drawn was determined by judges' consensus rather than an objective scoring system. The findings generally supported those of Schofield and the racial identity and preference literature as a whole in revealing blacks to be less accepting of their racial identity than whites.

Adolescent↗