Daryl Bruce Matthews

• M.D., Ph.D.
• University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

To summarize recent ethical analyses of psychiatrists' participation in the evaluation and treatment of death row inmates. Psychiatric participation in death penalty cases remains highly controversial in the United States, whereas there appears to be a more worldwide consensus that it is ethically inappropriate. Psychiatrists working in death penal...

Purpose of review: This paper seeks to update the reader in this area and features a notable recent development relating to the approach to treatment and rehabilitation of those suffering from work-related stress-induced illnesses. This may represent one of few successful therapeutic efforts to deal somewhat broadly with this socially problematic g...

Purpose of review This paper seeks to update the reader in this area and features a notable recent development relating to the approach to treatment and rehabilitation of those suffering from work-related stress-induced illnesses. This may represent one of few successful therapeutic efforts to deal somewhat broadly with this socially problematic gr...

The authors examine the characteristics of threatening and otherwise inappropriate communications sent to members of the U.S. Congress by a sample of 86 subjects, 20 of whom threatened assassination. We quote excerpts from these letters and provide quantitative data on such variables as the volume, duration, form, and appearance of such communicati...

Examined the characteristics of threatening and otherwise inappropriate letters sent to Hollywood celebrities by 214 Ss, who averaged 8 letters apiece. The authors quote excerpts from these letters, describe objects enclosed with them, and provide quantitative data on such variables as the (a) form, appearance, volume, and duration of such letters;...

Robert Plotkin of the Mental Health Law Project called the case a “tremendous victory” for the patients’ rights movement. Alan Stone, President of the American Psychiatric Association, bemoaned it as “the most impossible, inappropriate, ill-considered judicial decision in the field of mental health law.” The case is Rogers v. Okin , and in deciding...

This chapter discusses the services provided by physicians, nurses, psychologists, social workers, and other full-time mental health workers. Mental health services are divided into three delivery sectors: the general medical sector, the private mental health sector, and the public mental health sector. The general medical and private mental health...

Compliance can be problematic for any patient, irrespective of demographic factors and the illness involved. The most consistent predictors of compliance have been found to be certain health-related beliefs on the part of the patient, various characteristics of the regimen, and some aspects of the interaction between physician and patient. The heal...

The failure of patient to follow recommendations is present in all practices and can have dire consequences. Prevention is possible if the factors which may contribute to noncompliance are recognized. If the physician is alert to the existence of poor compliance in his practice, successful intervention can be achieved.

Studied characteristics of patients in a psychiatric crisis who did not return for further treatment after an initial request for emergency care. 200 consecutive outpatients who came to an emergency unit were interviewed and given a questionnaire to obtain data about treatment, history, demography, family background, and concepts of death. About 50...