Psychiatric Services
- Volume 27
- Number 4
- April 1976
Article
Publication date: 01 April 1976
Pages253–257A community mental health center in an urban ghetto offers a career-escalation program in which indigenous nonprofessional mental health workers can earn a master's degree in the behavioral sciences. The program allows them paid time offfor classes and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.27.4.253Publication date: 01 April 1976
Pages258–262The three basic concepts of community mental health will have profound impact on many aspects of traditional psychiatric theory and practice, the author believes, and must be taken into account in psychiatric residency programs. The catchment-area concept ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.27.4.258Publication date: 01 April 1976
Pages263–265In 1972 the California Department of Mental Hygiene offered special courses to retrain for community work those state hospital employees who might lose their jobs when the hospitals were closed. The courses were conducted by the Centers for Training in ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.27.4.263Publication date: 01 April 1976
Pages266–268Editor's note: This article describes another aspect of the Training in Community Living program at Mendota Mental Health Institute in Madison, Wisconsin. Hospital & Community Psychiatry plans to publish occasional follow-up reports on this program to ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.27.4.266Publication date: 01 April 1976
Pages269–271Differences that emerge in comparisons of persons applying for psychiatric care at a mental health center with those applying to the private sector are confounded by marked diagnostic differences beyond obvious social class differences. To circumvent that ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.27.4.269