Efforts of one community mental health center to develop a system of program evaluation
designed to meet criteria mandated by recent Federal legislation are described. This …

American Journal of Community Psychology, Vol. 6, No. 2, 1978 Trends In Community
Mental Health Programming1 Francis T. Miller, 2 Noel A. Mazade, and Sally Muller School of …

Presents a collection of 11 papers on the philosophical and social aspects of community
mental health centers (CMHCs). Reviews of the literature on community health and …

This paper describes the use of an empirically based evaluation system for the Crisis
Service of a comprehensive community mental health center. Through cooperative …

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 …

American Journal of Community Psychology, Vol. 2, No. 3 PR Aside: Initial Results from
NIMH's Service Program Evaluation Studies1 Charles Windle, 2 Rosalyn D. Bass, and Carl …

One of the major social programs of the 1960s was the development of community mental
health centers. As with most early attempts at evaluation, the results were pessimistic. This …

METHOD The research was conducted at two outpatient clinics of a community mental
health center. Data from the 1970 US Census indicate that the catch-ment area served by …

The community has responsibility" for the quality and adequacy of the mental health services
that it gets. The opportunities are now open for communities to employ the mechanism of the …

In this progress report on the community mental health centers program, the Director of the
National Institute of Mental Health reviews existing patterns of support, community …