Psychiatric Services
- Volume 24
- Number 10
- October 1973
Article
Publication date: 01 October 1973
Pages675–680The authors believe that the concepts of therapeutic community and community psychiatry have been too narrowly understood and have been limited in application by various organizational strictures. They believe that through a greater understanding of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.24.10.675Publication date: 01 October 1973
Pages680–681Many people seeking mental health services, particularly the poor and socially disadvantaged, have difficulty coping with the bureaucratic structures that often develop in community mental health centers. Recognizing the problem, the Mount Carmel Guild ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.24.10.680Publication date: 01 October 1973
Pages683–686The Los Angeles Center for Training in Community Psychiatry seeks to positively influence the delivery of mental health services in Southern California by helping key mental health professionals respond to new developments in the field. Its courses focus ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.24.10.683Publication date: 01 October 1973
Pages687–690In 1965 the Kentucky Mental Health Manpower Commission initiated a five-year project to interest high school students in careers related to mental health and mental retardation. Mental health clubs were organized in several high schools as an outgrowth of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.24.10.687Publication date: 01 October 1973
Pages691–694In 1969 the Ohio Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation began an experiment in using commercial television as a medium for primary prevention in the field of mental health. Three series of films based on crisis theory and techniques ultimately ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.24.10.691Publication date: 01 October 1973
Pages695–697The increase in drug abuse in the 1960s prompted the establishment of numerous telephone hotlines and drop-in crisis centers. As the number of acute drug crises has abated, such facilities are expanding their services to deal with other problems of youth. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.24.10.695Publication date: 01 October 1973
Pages698–699Following their discharge, 17 mentally retarded exresidents were employed by the institution. The paper discusses the selection and training of the employees, analyzes their predischarge case histories and job-performance ratings, and compares the results ...
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