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Psychiatric Services

  • Volume 27
  • Number 4
  • April 1976

Article

Publication date: 01 April 1976

Pages253–257

A 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.27.4.253

Publication date: 01 April 1976

Pages258–262

The 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.27.4.258

Publication date: 01 April 1976

Pages263–265

In 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.27.4.263

Publication date: 01 April 1976

Pages266–268

Editor'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.27.4.266

Publication date: 01 April 1976

Pages269–271

Differences 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

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