Structured group intervention for psychiatric patients with social conflicts: a consideration of psychiatric and legal labeling.

A structured programme was organized to address the high rate of legal conflicts among our in-patient population, the personal problems (e.g., denial) and practical problems (e.

Justifying inpatient admissions at a community mental health center.

A model for screening and reviewing inpatient psychiatric admissions at a community mental health center is presented in which the process, including the use of both a diagnostic criteria set and a functional criteria scale, is described. Results of a time-limited experimental program indicated that the diagnostic criteria set could be applied in approximately three fourths of the admissions, while the scale of function could be utilized in all cases. Also, a statistically high rate of concordance was found both when the two methods were used by the same evaluator, and when two independent evaluators were employing the same method.