Creating Residential Alternatives for the Chronically Mentally Ill
| Autor: | Harvey J. Lieberman, Peter C. Campanelli, Manuel Trujillo |
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| Rok vydání: | 1983 |
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medicine.medical_specialty education.field_of_study business.industry Mental Disorders Mentally ill Population New York Rehabilitation Vocational Mental health Community Mental Health Services Psychiatry and Mental health Ambulatory care Community support Family medicine Chronic Disease Humans Medicine Inpatient status Young adult business education Residential Treatment Social Adjustment |
| Zdroj: | Psychiatric Services. 34:166-167 |
| ISSN: | 1557-9700 1075-2730 |
| DOI: | 10.1176/ps.34.2.166 |
| Popis: | South Beach Psychiatric Center, a state-operated mental health facility located on Staten Island, New York, is the primary provider and core community support systems agency for mental health services for western Brooklyn and Staten Island. The center serves a populalion of approximately 1 . 5 million via a catchment-area system of inpatient and outpatient care. Although South Beach is one of the newer facilities of the New York State Office of Mental Health, level-of-care surveys cornpleted during. 1977 showed a relaiively large proportion of chronic patients among its inpatient population. These patients by definition had maintained inpatient status for at least six months or experienced four hospitalizations within a 12month period. By 1979 the center had 140 such patients occupying approximately 35 percent of the available inpatient beds, and the majority could be characterized as young adult chronic patients (1). The institutional revolving-door phe |
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