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Strikes and Community Mental Health Services

Psychiatric Services, 1978
The author discusses the effects of a 17-day strike by mental health workers in Santa Clara County, California, in 1975. Staff walkouts were most complete in services that were considered essential: the four methadone clinics and a 62-bed locked inpatient unit for acutely ill involuntary patients.
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Community Mental Health Services in Britain

American Journal of Psychiatry, 1973
Although the practice of psychiatry was similar in the United States and Britain during the last century, since then their paths have diverged, especially since the Second World War and the institution in Britain of the National Health Service. The major postwar development in Britain has been in social psychiatry, with particular reference to ...
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PROJECTIONS FOR COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES

American Journal of Psychiatry, 1966
As we have stressed in the training of our medical students, we ourselves must be prepared to practice whatever technique each patient requires. As we continue to deal with problems newly brought to us by the public, we must ask ourselves how much our new solutions are directed to patients' problems and how much to our need to resolve our own anxiety ...
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Bilingual Professionals in Community Mental Health Services

Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 1998
Objective: This paper presents results from research that explored the roles of bilingual professionals in community mental health services in the Sydney metropolitan area of New South Wales. There were two main objectives to the research: (i) to identify and describe the roles of bilingual professionals that are important in improving the quality of ...
P, Mitchell, A, Malak, D, Small
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Community mental health services in transition

Community Mental Health Journal, 1987
Major policy and funding shifts over the last several years have stimulated a series of changes in local mental health agencies. Services offered CMHCs became less comprehensive and more oriented toward chronic and severely ill patients. Decreases occurred in other services, primarily indirect services.
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Medical Services in Community Mental Health Programs

Psychiatric Services, 1986
Considerable attention has focused on the recent decline in the numben of psychiatrists working in community mental health centers (1) and the fact that the role of psychiatrists in many CMHCs has changed from one of leadership to one of little authority (2).
L R, Faulkner, J D, Bloom, J D, Bray, R, Maricle   +3 more
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Mental health services for the community public health services

Public Health, 1961
Summary In a mental health service in which increasing emphasis is to be placed on community care, the arrangements made by local authorities need to be planned and maintained as a part of a comprehensive mental health service the components of which are dependent on each other.
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Changing models of community mental health services

Journal of Community Psychology, 1981
The various comprehensive community mental health centers developed at the same time as the free clinics intended to provide an alternative form of service. The origins and contributions of each of these directions of service are compared on such matters as funding, political orientation, relation to local government, the composition and functions of ...
J, Lafollette, M, Pilisuk
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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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Recovery, place and community mental health services

Journal of Mental Health, 2011
While some studies have examined recovery in relation to specific contexts (e.g. housing and work), few have looked in detail at the social and environmental conditions in which recovery occurs.To explore the relationship between the recovery of people receiving community mental health services and the places in which they live; to generate knowledge ...
Ian, Yates, Guy, Holmes, Helena, Priest
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