This article attempts to bring organization theory a little closer to the changing forms it seeks
to model, focusing particularly on revisions needed to support better research on mental …

Recent political and scientific developments have contributed to a growing recognition of the
need to move mental health into the mainstream of general health service delivery. It is …

General systems theory, when applied to human personality and behavior, considers the
human system to be an active, open one in which personality develops through interaction …

Modern organizational theory is highly attentive to the environmental underpinnings of
organizations, and in particular to the institutional legitimations that sustain organizations …

A model is a deliberately oversimplified picture of the real world or the portion of the real
world that it seeks to represent. The objective in constructing models is to help better …

This paper draws on both psychoanalytical and systems theory to consider how the creation
and maintenance of community mental health teams can impact upon the relationships …

Within the past 25 years, interorganizational analysis has emerged as a distinctive field of
research, occupying an interstitial position between studies of individual organizations and …

Fragmented and often uncoordinated public services for the more severely mentally ill are
often characteristic of the current US mental health system. The creation of local mental …

Most writers now recognize that mental health policy and the mental health system are
extremely resistant to real changes that reflect genuine biopsychosocial paradigms of …

What is attempted in this article is to present an organizational perspective on community
mental health centers (CMHCs) that could provide a clearer understanding of the structures …