abstract：:This study identified the health resources that rural consumers in DHHS Region V indicated they would use for mental health problems. Data were collected by survey research methods from a probability sample of 3057 rural residents. The study found that rural residents prefer to use primary care givers for mental healt...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Flaskerud JH,Kviz FJ

更新日期：1982-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors review four approaches chairmen of departments of psychiatry have used to attempt to ensure quality resident education in CMHCs they do not control. Several examples are presented of administrative problems that may develop in this type of relationship. Based on this material and the author's experience, a...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Faulkner LR,Eaton JS Jr,Bloom JD,Cutler DL

更新日期：1982-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors conceptualized multidisciplinary team decision making in terms of information collection, communication, and combination. The study explored the potentially biasing effects of situational variables on information collection. When compared with evening shift nurses, day shift nurses rated patients as much l...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Robertson DU,Mesmer R,Hoshino AY,Steinmeyer C

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The legislative pressures now dominating the realm of program accountability are moving the mental health system from process to outcome evaluations. While the need for this type of assessment is generally acknowledged, its methodological validity and policy-setting utility are the subject of considerable controversy....

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Schulberg HC

更新日期：1981-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Citizen involvement in CMHC service delivery has two bases: (a) volunteerism and (b) identification with clients and citizens who may need services. This identification is expressed two ways, as cultural similarity to clients or social activism in their behalf. Paraprofessionals have been portrayed as a major mechanis...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Riley W

更新日期：1981-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examines early adjustment to marital separation as a function of sex and parent status in a sample of 153 persons separated an average of eight weeks from their spouses because of marital discord. Men were much more satisfied with the quality of their marriages prior to separation and much more opposed to i...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Bloom BL,Hodges WF

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Why do some implementations in human service settings of goal attainment scaling (GAS), an innovative program evaluation technique, last over time, whereas others die out despite an initially successful period of operation? To provide some tentative answers to this question and to help shed more light generally on dif...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Glaser EM,Backer TE

更新日期：1980-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The U.S. President's Commission on Mental Health (1978) has called for a broader conception of mental health and the factors that influence it. The "macro"-social environment is emerging as one area of concern. The influence of two macroenvironmental domains, the physical and economic, on several areas of human functi...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Monahan J,Vaux A

更新日期：1980-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study surveyed federally-funded emergency psychiatric programs in 33 California community mental health centers (CMHCs). Four aspects of service organization were examined: (1) the availability of various response styles (telephone service, walk-in service, follow-up home visits, mobile initial response); ...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Gaynor J,Hargreaves WA

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Often the cases seen in a municipal court or a mental health center's crisis department are identical. The concepts used to describe these common cases and the resultant agency actions taken differ drastically between the legal and mental health arenas. This paper presents a working model that combines mental health a...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Fraser JR,Froelich JE

更新日期：1979-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:What happens to community mental health centers when federal funding ends? Analysis of the funding patterns of a cohort of "graduate" community mental health centers indicates that these centers remained fiscally viable subsequent to termination of basic federal grants. However, further analysis revealed two distinct ...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Weiner RS,Woy JR,Sharfstein SS,Bass RD

更新日期：1979-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A content analysis of all (N = 604) published articles in the Community Mental Health Journal from 1965 through 1977 was performed (a) to provide a cross-sectional view of the community mental health field, and (b) to identify topic trends over time. Sixty-one content categories were used to classify topic areas. Resu...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Lounsbury JW,Roisum KG,Pokorny L,Sills A,Meissen GJ

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A questionnaire presenting two clinical cases with questions about a diagnosis, type of treatment, and whether the respondent would treat or refer the person was administered to pastoral counselors, psychologists, social workers, and psychiatrists. Psychiatrists tend to see the most and social workers the least pathol...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Newman RC 2nd,Carney RE,Sharon IA

更新日期：1978-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In California and in Great Britain plans are being made to move the treatment setting for many sex offenders from large state hospitals to community sites. The most useful aspects of the state hospital programs can be adapted to the community setting. In the proposed treatment centers, graded levels of security may in...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Freeman AM 3rd

更新日期：1978-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A review of literature on suicide shows a focus on early detection of those at risk of suicide and on the traits of those who actually commit suicide, but little attention to the therapeutic decisions of those who treat suicidal patients. Through in-depth interviews, 27 therapists from an interdisciplinary mental heal...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Gurrister L,Kane RA

更新日期：1978-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Goal attainment scaling is a program evaluation technique that measures program success using individualized client goals rather than the same measuring instrument for all clients. Although the reliability of the goal attainment scales is generally acceptable, such scales have not exhibited satisfactory validity. Also...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Calsyn RJ,Davidson WS

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is proposed that the ombudsman program, originally conceived of as a protection of the political rights of individual citizens, can be profitably viewed as a primary prevention of psychological disorders. The ombudsman attempts to alleviate reality problems prior to the onset of psychological disruption by engaging...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Wolkon GH,Moriwaki S

更新日期：1977-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Five issues have been identified as major impediments to program evaluation. Examination of these issues shows many of them to be resolved in the process of conducting evaluations. It is asserted that only by implementing evaluations will the field move foreward. At the present time much energy is wasted discussing or...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Edwards DW,Yarvis RM

更新日期：1977-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The developmental experience of an urban community mental health-mental retardation center is presented as a guiding model for other community mental health centers interested in "tooling up" their mental retardation services. Surveying personnel needs, establishing educational objectives tailored to personnel, presen...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Hersh A,Brown GA

更新日期：1977-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors describe the planning, development, implementation, and results of a consultation program to the clergy as part of an agency's community mental health service. The paper focuses on the four main program goals of (1) revitalizing a local association for the clergy, (2) developing the clergy's pastoral skill...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Kaseman CM,Anderson RG

更新日期：1977-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:About half of the current activity in consultation and education services of community mental health centers can be classified as primary prevention. Using a framework that distinguishes between institutional-level interventions (caretaker training and program consultation) and individual-level interventions (dealing ...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Vayda AM,Perlmutter FD

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The assumption that terminations data represent a cross section of patients treated at mental health centers is investigated by comparing social characteristics of patients admitted to and terminated from mental health centers. The great majority of patient characteristics of the two groups are similar enough to make ...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Stern MS

更新日期：1976-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent pessimistic criticism of right to treatment decisions is unwarranted. The developing law contains a great deal of flexibility, and this can be creatively utilized to secure resources for community-based services. Courts' emphasis on the physical framework of care is an intentional effort to avoid interfering wi...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Dix GE

更新日期：1976-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to develop criteria for appropriate and inappropriate referrals by telephone counselors to a crisis clinic. Interviews were conducted with staff members and volunteers of the Suicide Prevention and Crisis Service to explore possible criteria for making a referral. Nine criteria for inappr...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Walfish S,Tulkin SR,Tapp JT,Russell M

更新日期：1976-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Single and multiple correlates for premature termination and duration of treatment were examined for 13,450 clients seem in 17 community mental health facilities. Predictor variables included seven demographic characteristics of clients and five characteristics of service (type of personnel seeing clients, assignment ...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Sue S,McKinney HL,Allen DB

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper reports a study of the extent to which essential elements of community mental health are part of mental health agencies' practices. A sample of 263 social workers reported on the nature of programming and services of 19 mental health facilities ranging from city and state community mental health centers to ...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Cohen SZ,Reid WJ,Berg LK

更新日期：1975-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper addresses itself to the solutions developed in Massachusetts to three key legal problem areas with regard to the psychiatric halfway house. The areas are (1) the assurance of the overall quality of the programs through rigorous implementation of regulatory statutes; (2) the determination of beneficial locat...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Budson RD

更新日期：1975-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The secretaries in community mental health centers have functions that transcend their job descriptions. Their performance of these functions contributes to the success or failure of their centers' therapeutic programs. The Mental Health Training Institute of North Carolina initiated two separate pilot training progra...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Nyman GW,Watson D,Schmidt D,James SE

更新日期：1975-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is increasing awareness of the sensitive and crucial role of the law enforcement officer as a community caretaker. Rigorous efforts to define criteria of adequate performance and to select men who can meet these criteria are called for. In this study applicants for a law enforcement agency were subjected to an e...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： McDonough LB,Monahan J

更新日期：1975-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Are the addict and alcoholic mentally ill? By traditional standards, yes. The validity of the "mental illness" concept and its associated psychiatric labeling process, however, is challenged. A synthesis of the human ecological systems and third-force frames of reference is presented as a viable alternative to the med...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Carroll JF

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A suggested example of a systematic approach for linking planning with evaluation is presented. The proposed systematic processes would help deal with the ambiguities of the mental health field and provide a more objective way of planning and evaluating programs. Program evaluation can then be related to the predeterm...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Olkon SH

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In November 1972 Congress passed P.L. 92-603 creating Professional Standards Review Organizations (PSROs) to involve practicing physicians and other health care professionals in the ongoing review and evaluation of health care services funded through Medicare, Medicaid, and maternal and child health programs. This pap...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Thorne MQ Jr

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A program in the state of Maryland which introduces psychiatric residents to community psychiatry is described. Since 1958, 80 senior psychiatric residents worked one day a week for a year as psychiatric consultants to Maryland county health departments. The program embodies the principle of inductive education, intro...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Kern HM Jr,Jacobson WE

更新日期：1969-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This discussion summarizes community-based research conducted by the Human Relations Service of Wellesley, Inc., during the first 15 years of its existence as a pilot mental health program. It suggests that the community mental health laboratory develop service and research as coordinated components. Service activitie...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Klein DC

更新日期：1969-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The key jingler is the staff person in any institution who uses his power in a manner that is debilitating to the inmates. He is a confidence man, bureaucrat, buck passer, someone putting up a front. Quite often it is the norms of the institution that impose this kind of behavior on the staff. The key jingling process...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Hartman C

更新日期：1969-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To study the effectiveness of group discussion in mitigating the rising hostility between police and residents of the urban ghetto, two 15-member groups of police and ghetto residents held weekly discussions, led and observed by university researchers, for 12 weeks. Attitude scales administered at the beginning and en...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Lipsitt PD,Steinbruner M

更新日期：1969-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The intake policy of an agency is presented as an integral part of an agency's impact upon community organization and hence as crucial in the effectiveness and efficiency with which it carries out the mission of total community care. Three possible models for intake policy are elaborated: direct service, extended comm...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Feldman SE,Jacobson M

更新日期：1969-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A mental health enterprise may be described by either (a) rather general philosophical total mental health goals, or (b) highly diverse and individualized patient-therapist goals. Goals a. have not provided a workable framework for program evaluation. This paper proposes that evaluation be done in the framework of goa...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Kiresuk TJ,Sherman RE

更新日期：1968-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Paramedical personnel offer a ready reservoir of partially trained personnel who can assist in combating the ever-increasing problem of emotional disorders. A multi-disciplinary program of continuing education for these allied professionals is outlined. Four courses, Personality Development, Emotional and Mental Disor...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Kriegman G,Harris MD,Rosinski EF

更新日期：1968-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A description and analysis of the Range Mental Health Center's professional activities are presented. The results of this program analysis suggest that a public health, consultation-oriented mental health center can provide equitable and effective services to a large geographic area. Maintenance of ongoing consultativ...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Hunter WF,Ratcliffe AW

更新日期：1968-06-01 00:00:00