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Mental Health Services for Chinese in a Community Health Center

Social Casework, 1984
Serious mental health problems exist within the Chinese population of the United States. This article describes one center's attempt to meet the psychiatric needs of both nonpsychotic and psychotic Chinese patients through bilingual, culturally relevant treatments.
M K, Lorenzo, D A, Adler
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Cost Containment in a Community Mental Health Center

Psychiatric Services, 1980
Faced with a major operational deficit and the end of its federal staffing grant, a community mental health center established a cost-containment committee and developed a program to engage staff support. The committee, including members of the clinical and administrative staffs and the community board, meets weekly to review requests for expenditures.
A A, Arce, M S, Adams, J F, Woods, T K, Kaney   +3 more
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The mental health exchange: An important function of a community Mental Health Center

Community Mental Health Journal, 1966
A team of professional staff persons, including psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, public health nurses, etc., accompanied by a group of volunteer women who have been trained as mental health aides, provides county residents with counseling and information regarding mental health problems.
M, Cooper, C G, Southard
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Community mental health center staffing patterns

Community Mental Health Journal, 1970
A survey of funded applications for federal staffing grants from 80 community mental health centers reveals that of 3,830 full-time positions projected by the centers, 1,613 or 42% were listed as nonprofessional mental health personnel. The study was conducted to help the planners of new centers benefit from the projected staffing patterns of existing ...
A I, Levenson, S R, Reff
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Developing a Community Board for a Mental Health Center

Psychiatric Services, 1979
Federally funded community mental health centers are required to have governing boards made up of community residents to ensure that services are meeting the community's needs. Sound View-Throgs Neck Community Mental Health Center in Bronx, New York, met that requirement by developing three local advisory boards, one for each subcatchment area served ...
M B, Ahmed, C S, Harm
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Using Volunteers in a Community Mental Health Center

Psychiatric Services, 1971
O UR MENTAL HEALTH CENTER is located at the General Hospital of Monroe County, and serves a population of 105,000 persons, spread out over many sparsely populated rural and suburban areas. When the center opened in September 1968, with a 20-bed inpatient unit, we planned an intensive activity program using community facilities.
R E, Featherman, M, Welling
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A Lithium Clinic in a Community Mental Health Center

Psychiatric Services, 1980
A community mental health center established a group lithium clinic to introduce a medical model of treatment for manic-depressive patients and to reduce staff time in caring for these patients. Clinical maintenance consisted of a monthly group meeting with a psychiatrist and a social worker; the social worker led general discussions on symptomatology,
J, Ellenberg, I, Salamon, C, Meaney
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Community mental health centers and services for the mentally retarded

Community Mental Health Journal, 1967
In the past, community mental health centers have often had a policy of not providing services to the mentally retarded. In view of the many needs of the retarded child and his parents this policy is unfortunate. A review of the four-year period caseload of one small community mental health center that offered services to the retarded shows that 14% of
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Mental health center versus community perceptions of mental health services

Journal of Community Psychology, 1981
A list of 53 mental health programs and services was presented to community samples of county commissioners and mental health board members, mental health program administrators, mental health clinicians, mental health clerical staff, clients, general public, staff of agencies related to mental health, and staff of community agencies not so related ...
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The study of attitudes about mental health in the community mental health center

Community Mental Health Journal, 1974
The assumption that a common ideology is shared by the staff of a community mental health center was tested using the Community Mental Health Ideology Scale. The scores of three groups were analyzed—service directors, line staff, and student aides. Marked discrepancies or lack of consensus in beliefs were found to exist among professional disciplines ...
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