The presence of psychiatrists in community mental health centers has diminished in recent
years, especially in centers that are non-hospital-based and that are located in rural or …

Many community mental health centers have bad to operate with less funding in the past
several years, especially since the advent of block grant funding. Evidence is now …

The number and the roles of psychiatric units in general hospitals have been growing
rapidly in recent years, and general-hospital psychiatry presents broad opportunities for …

The purpose of this paper is to describe the psychiatrist's role in community mental health
programs, beginning with the evolution of psychiatric involvement in community mental …

The community mental health center (CMHC) movement, largely conceived by psychiatrists
to improve standards of mental health care nationally, appears to be going through an …

Community mental health centers are subject to a number of pressures that will affect the
way centers operate in the years ahead. These influences include a reduction infederal …

The original model for the community mental health center was a health-oriented treatment
facility associated with a community hospital, operated under medical leadership, and …

#{149} Ithas been 19 years since the passage of the Community Mental Health Centers Act
by Congress and its signing into law by President Kennedy. In the intervening years the role …

Staffing patterns of federally funded community mental health centers were examined in a
survey of 512 centers conducted in 1977. A total of 275 usable responses were received …

Executive directors of Oregon's 36 community mental health programs were surveyed in the
fall of 1983 to determine the nature of psychiatric services offered and the roles played by …