Improving community services for serious mental disorders
- 1 January 1992
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Mental Health
- Vol. 1 (2) , 107-115
- https://doi.org/10.3109/09638239209034522
Abstract
We studied 6 new ‘comprehensive’ Community Mental Health Teams and assessed benefits they introduced for people with serious mental disorders. This clientele was most likely to benefit when the catchment's established long-term caseloads were transferred to the new team very early on and when planners had stipulated provision of a day unit. A powerful influence to the detriment of this clientele was staff preference for clients without indicators of serious mental disorder.Keywords
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