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 …

The authors suggest that major shifts in federal government policies have taken place in the
past twenty years. These changes have increased state control over mental health programs …

Abstract" 3 factors importantly affect the successful achievement of the objectives of the
comprehensive community mental health center approach:(1) The centers must be free from …

This study tracks the 761 community mental health centers which received federal grants as
of 1981 and assesses their status 10 years after the shift to Block Grant financing. Contrary …

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 …

AS EVALUATION research becomes an increasingly important aspect of mental health
programing, those of us responsible for the provision of new services have to include in the …

PROGRAM evaluation studies are notable for the large number of people in favor of doing
them and the small number of people who actually try. This is very understandable …

The Community Mental Health Centers Amendments of 1975 (Public Law 94-63) contained
three requirements relating to quality assurance in community mental health centers: the …

The field of services research has grown tremendously. in the last decade as the need for
data about how to best organize, finance and deliver quality health services has grown …