Paraprofessional Role in a Mental Health Continuing Care Program
- 1 August 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Health & Social Work
- Vol. 4 (3) , 64-81
- https://doi.org/10.1093/hsw/4.3.64
Abstract
The authors report on a unique program in which paraprofessionals provide continuing care services to patients in a large public psychiatric hospital, both before and after discharge. Data from one hundred patients indicate that paraprofessional caseworkers effectively managed 85 percent of the patients' post-discharge problems without needing to directly involve their professional teammates.Keywords
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