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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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Community mental health services and the lower socioeconomic classes: a summary of research literature on outpatient treatment (1963-1969).

American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 1972
The research uncovered principally documents problem areas in the delivery of services to the lower socioeconomic classes. Few articles were found describing attempts at the solution of these problems through evaluation of different approaches to service
C. W. Cobb
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User involvement in community mental health services--principles and practices.

Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, 2009
Although user involvement has been the vision of mental health care for the last decades, there are indications of this vision remaining as rhetoric rather than reality in many clinical settings.
M. Borg, B. Karlsson, H. S. Kim
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A grounded theory study of the role that nurses play in increasing clients' willingness to access community mental health services.

International Journal of Mental Health Nursing, 2003
Clients and caregivers frequently encounter difficulties in accessing mental health services. Early intervention to care and treatment is essential to recovery as delays can adversely affect the severity and the duration of the illness.
T. McCann, E. Clark
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Jail Recidivism and Receipt of Community Mental Health Services

, 1994
The authors' aim was to test the relationship between receipt of desired community mental health services by homeless mentally ill forensic clients and whether the clients returned to jail within six months.
P. Solomon, J. Draine, A. Meyerson
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Community Mental Health Services

Psychiatric Services, 1963
Daniel Blain, Reginald W. Medlicott
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The organization and management of community mental health services

Community Mental Health Journal, 1972
Development of Community Mental Health Centers has revealed the need for more effective administrative mechanisms for planning, developing, and controlling mental health services and for involving effectively the local community in this process. The public health model of primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention was used as a basis for planning and ...
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Organizing the range of community mental health services

2011
Abstract In discussing the range of community mental health services which can and should be provided, we first considers important pre-conditions, namely the scale of needs in any given population, the degree of coverage of these needs by existing services, the quantity and quality of available resources, and how far the attitudes of ...
Thornicroft G., TANSELLA, Michele, Drake R. E.   +2 more
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Community Mental Health Services: Research in Evaluation

Psychological Reports, 1956
In 1953, a research program was initiated to evaluate the effectiveness of the preventive community mental health service program in St. Louis County, a program which had developed in part because of the experiences just described The program has as one of its aims the modification of maternal attitudes toward child care through contacts with mothers ...
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Services for the aged in community mental health centers

American Journal of Psychiatry, 1976
The author studied the services provided for the elderly at eight community mental health centers. He describes discrimination against the elderly, the reasons why relatively few elderly persons seek care, and innovations in treatment. He discovered that high-quality care depends more on staff awareness of the unique problems of the elderly than on ...
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