The legislative pressures now dominating the realm of program accountability are moving
the mental health system from process to outcome evaluations. While the need for this type …

The authors report on the experiences gleaned from site visits to federally funded mental
health centers that are now in operation. Their most important findings were: the formation of …

President's Commission on Mental Health and directed its members to review the mental
health needs of the United States and to make recom-mendations for meeting those needs …

Contends that although recent developments in mental health care have reduced the
population of state mental hospitals, they can still perform useful functions. Their ability to …

Interest in assessing outcomes of treatment for both medical-surgical and psychiatric
treatment has virtually exploded over the last few years. This development has paralleled a …

Evaluation in Mental Health Programs, Ballinger, Cambridge, Mas-sachusetts, 1974.
through prescreening, ongoing monitoring of treatment, and evaluation of aftercare …

Outlines the history of the provision of mental health services in the US from the 1800s to
1974. Since passage of the Community Mental Health Centers Act by Congress in 1963 …

Program planning for community mental health ser-vices now necessitates planning for
ongoing evaluation. Financial sponsors, government and otherwise, soon will refuse to …

Kenneth Tardiff, MD, MPH lAs we approach the development of a national health insurance
program in the United States, there are questions concerning the role of current providers of …