Psychiatric Services
- Volume 25
- Number 4
- April 1974
Article
Publication date: 01 April 1974
Pages221–225Federal pressures to phase out categorical assistance for community mental health centers have dramatized the need for developing multiple sources of financial support. for the centers. The author explores the funding potential of third-party payments, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.25.4.221Publication date: 01 April 1974
Pages225–227Community mental health legislation has permitted the development of nonprofit corporations that assume responsibility for supplying mental health care to a defined population. Some corporations provide no direct services but instead contract with ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.25.4.225Publication date: 01 April 1974
Pages228–231Management-by-objectives can be a valuable tool for administrators of community mental health programs. The approach requires each unit of an organization to define objectives, establish priorities, specify activities, and measure performance. The author ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.25.4.228Publication date: 01 April 1974
Pages232–235The authors provide guidelines, based on their own experiences, for planners of community mental health centers. They emphasize the need for sound management principles, and they describe and illustrate five basic tasks in developing a community mental ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.25.4.232Publication date: 01 April 1974
Pages235–238In 1971 Peninsula Hospital's community mental health center was given full control over expenditures of Short-Doyle and Medicaid funds. A committee was established to regulate use of services by reviewing proposed or ongoing individual treatment plans, in ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.25.4.235Publication date: 01 April 1974
Pages239–241Two architects at the Institute for Applied Technology of the National Bureau of Standards developed a planning aid kit (the PAK system) to facilitate the community-based design of community mental health center services. PAK includes guidelines for ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.25.4.239Publication date: 01 April 1974
Pages242–244Noting that the high cost of inpatient programs in community mental health centers has long been used as an argument for terminating community inpatient programs, the authors report on a study comparing costs in Texas community mental health and mental ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.25.4.242Past Issues
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