Anyone can help at any crucial point in time: there is a whole panoply of individuals who can practice prevention, intervention, or postvention, whether as clinicians, research scientists, or empathic human beings seeking to help someone in duress.(36 pp.)
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Mental Health Programs in Welfare Systems
The experience with the poor has motivated psychiatrists to reevaluate and restructure their professional roles and to modify concepts, methods, and techniques correspondingly.
(68 pp.)
A Review of the Federal Community Mental Health Centers Program
Much of the history of the federal community mental health centers program can be traced to events that occurred during and just after World War II. During the war, there developed a great emphasis on acute treatment in the setting of the war zone itself. After the war, there arose a great public concern about the problem of mental illness and our national efforts to deal with the problem. Together, these two sets of circumstances paved the way for the efforts of the federal government to reshape the delivery of mental health services throughout the nation. (35 pp.)
Principles of Community Mental Health Practice
Despite widely different opinions with respect to the nature of community mental health practice, there is a growing consensus among the more experienced practitioners that an arrangement of concepts and principles may be attempted as a step to encourage others to make their own synthesis out of their own experiences. (33 pp.)
Organization of Community Mental Health Program in a Metropolis
Increasing urbanization is bringing greater attention to the super-community, or metropolis, as a locale for the delivery of mental health services. Social scientists have for some time been describing the unique alienating and dehumanizing aspects of life in the metropolis, so that it is becoming increasingly evident that large urban areas of high population density differ qualitatively as well as quantitatively from smaller communities. With an increased awareness of the ecological aspects of community living, the stress-producing effects of the community itself are becoming more evident. (31 pp.)
Community Mental Health in a Rural Region
The physical and emotional isolation so characteristic of the rural region renders a public health approach essential if community mental health is to reach the people, merge scarce resources, surmount barriers of poverty, overcome ethnic bias, distance, and culture, and eventually provide effective service for the entire population. (39 pp.)
The Mental Hospital as a Basis for Community Psychiatry
The mental hospital must serve as one resource in a network of mental health services designed to support programs for the community-based treatment of the mentally ill.
(33 pp.)
The Social Breakdown Syndrome and Its Prevention
The social breakdown syndrome (SBS) is the name given to certain features of psychiatric patients’ deterioration. It is a useful concept because it specifies those features of patient functioning, especially extreme withdrawal and aggressive behavior, that become less common when new systems of delivering psychiatric services are introduced. (43 pp.)
