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Community mental health services in transition
Community Mental Health Journal, 1987Major 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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Community mental health services in the community jail
Community Mental Health Journal, 1979A 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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Objectives and communications in community mental health services
Public Health, 1963Summary 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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Changing models of community mental health services
Journal of Community Psychology, 1981The 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 ...
Marc Pilisuk, Jere Lafollette
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Bilingual Professionals in Community Mental Health Services
Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 1998Objective: 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 ...
David Small, Abd Malak, Penny Mitchell
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Medical Services in Community Mental Health Programs
Psychiatric Services, 1986Considerable 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).
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Community attitudes about mental health services
Community Mental Health Journal, 1974Community attitudes toward a new mental health center were surveyed by calling 110 randomly selected residences. Drugs and alcohol were seen as the community's most pressing social problem. Respondents were favorable to mental health centers and public funding and had accurate information about many aspects of mental health problems, although ...
Spencer A. McWilliams, Larry A. Morris
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Mental health center versus community perceptions of mental health services
Journal of Community Psychology, 1981A 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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Community mental health centers and services for the mentally retarded
Community Mental Health Journal, 1967In 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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Recovery, place and community mental health services
Journal of Mental Health, 2011While 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 ...
Helena Priest, Guy Holmes, Ian Yates
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