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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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Carers and community mental health services

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 2001
There is a growing appreciation of the role and needs of carers for people with mental health problems. Carers are a diverse group, including partners, relatives and friends who are seen as such by service users.Sixty-four carers of people with severe mental health problems served by four different mental health care providers were interviewed using ...
Schneider, J, Carpenter, J, Wooff, D, Brandon, T, McNiven, F   +4 more
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Mental Health Service in a Community College

AJN, American Journal of Nursing, 1971
rhe need for psychiatrist services on campuses has long been recognized. Here, at City College of San Francisco the need seemed urgent. Students at this inner city college include many from minority groups, different cultures, and many who have been unemployable, highschool dropouts, and otherwise disadvantaged.
J H, Carey, J, Swartz
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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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Objectives and communications in community mental health services

Public Health, 1963
Summary Some steps towards defining objectives and improving communications in community Mental Health Services, are discussed. Important among them are:— (1)Careful assessment of the clinical condition of the patient and of his social and interpersonal circumstances as a first requirement, before community care is attempted.
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Community mental health services in the community jail

Community Mental Health Journal, 1979
A frequently neglected group of community residents are those who find their way into jail. Jails tend to be the collecting point for many disturbed persons. This paper briefly describes the problems of the jail population and staff and suggests a policy of mental health intervention.
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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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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 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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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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