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Psychiatric Aftercare: Planning for a Community Mental Health Service

Psychiatric Aftercare: Planning for a Community Mental Health Service

Silverstein, Max

Hardcover

Series: Anniversary Collection

Medical Reference

ISBN10: 0812275659
ISBN13: 9780812275650
Publisher: Univ Penn Pr Anniversary Colle
Published: Jan 29 1968
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.92
Height: 0.44 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Each year about 325,000 persons are admitted as patients to public mental hospitals in the United States. Less than half are first admissions; 175,000 are readmissions. And each year about 310,000 patients leave the public mental hospitals. They undertake the hazards of living again, as ex-patients, in the community. More than half will return, at some time, to hospital. The highest proportion will return within the first year after release.

Mental health workers, planners, and administrators hold that many more ex-patients would sustain community tenure if appropriate follow-up aftercare services were available to them. But no one is sure to what extent this is so. This studies aspects of the aftercare problems of over 10,000 patients released from public mental hospitals. It highlights major aftercare service needs of released patients, the availability of aftercare services, the utilization of these services by ex-patients, and the relationship between utilization of services and community tenure.

The study provides answers to the following questions:

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