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The Future of Community Psychiatry

Community Mental Health Journal, 2003
Leaders of national groups that have focused on issues of community and social psychiatry present their ideas about the future of psychiatry. They identify five areas: theory development; the relevance of community psychiatry in the 21st century; education and training; the relationship between community psychiatry and health maintenance organizations;
Carl I, Cohen, Joel S, Feiner, Charles, Huffine, H Steven, Moffic, Kenneth S, Thompson   +4 more
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Social and Community Psychiatry

American Journal of Psychiatry, 1969
The National Health Service was established at a time when psychiatry as a specialty was undergoing a period of rapid development and change. This coincidence, the author feels, has helped to determine not only the type of psychiatry practiced and the kinds of services established in Britain but the theoretical development of the field as well.
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The Nurse in Community Psychiatry

The American Journal of Nursing, 1969
Psychiatry Community psychiatry is a growing field of practice which utilizes the skills of many disciplines, nursing among them. Just what does nursing contribute? What does a nurse have to offer? What is different about her way of looking at social systems and at people that makes her an asset to the team?
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American “community” psychiatry

The Lancet, 2000
' w e n t to my local library in search of a definition of ."community" because I wanted to understand what we mean these days when we refer to "services in the community" for individuals ~vith chronic mental illnesses. The best I came up with was, "a social group sharing common characteristics, circumstances, and/or interests, perceived or perceiving ...
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The Evolution of Community Psychiatry

Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 1992
Community Psychiatry is sometimes regarded as a separate and even as a recent study. The history of its evolution in Australia shows it to have resulted from a logical progression since the earliest days of the psychiatric services. The demand for care completely outstripped the accommodation available so two separate but parallel methods of dealing ...
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Psychiatry, the University, and the Community

Archives of General Psychiatry, 1965
I SHALL SPEAK of two matters. The first will deal with the psychiatric clinic and hospital in the university medical center and its implications for medicine in general. The second will deal with the current political and social movement intent upon the establishment of community mental health services and their possible implications for psychiatric ...
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Ethics of community psychiatry

Current Opinion in Psychiatry, 1999
Psychiatric care in the community gives rise to ethical dilemmas which resemble those associated with predominantly institutional care. However, there are also dilemmas specifically associated with community care, many of which are conceptual as well as practical.
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Social and Community Psychiatry

British Journal of Psychiatry, 1994
Since the last update on this subject in the British Journal of Psychiatry (Forster, 1988), and the 1986 publication of the reading list from the Section for Social, Community and Rehabilitation Psychiatry, profound changes have been taking place in Britain, and therefore to the context in which the subject has to be considered.
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Pitfalls of Community Psychiatry

Archives of General Psychiatry, 1968
MUCH THAT will be presented here was anticipated by some of our distinguished predecessors. In 1932, after the late Dr. Frankwood Williams had been the Medical Director of the National Committee for Mental Hygiene for 17 years, he resigned and published an article entitled "Is There a Mental Hygiene?"1His objections to the mental hygiene movement of ...
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Resistances to community psychiatry

The Psychiatric Quarterly, 1971
The resistance phenomenon in individual patients—probably the most intractable of all symptoms—has long been studied and techniques have been developed to deal with it. The author takes up the equally severe problems of resistance to change in “healthy” people and groups.
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