Civil commitment to outpatient psychiatric treatment has only recently become the subject of
significant discussion, not only in the professional literature, but also in state legislatures and …

This volume is addressed to professionals and students in community mental health-
including researchers, clinicians, administrators, educa tors, and students in relevant …

Human service ideology appears to be developing among mental health professionals and
other community caregivers as a new belief system which may have the profound impact for …

An attempt is presented to measure and compare attitudes to and ideas about psychiatry
and mental health services in Concepcion, Sheffield and Trieste. These cities have in some …

An examination of community mental health ideological variations among staff from a
national sample of community mental health centers, their perceptions of their organization's …

An at tempt was unade, using Hanlon's Q-sort, to determine relationships between self-
concept-role-perception congruences and length of professional nursing experience for a …

Given the growing attention that involuntary commitment to outpatient mental health
treatment has received in both the clinical and legal literature over the past 15 years, one …

Studied the relationship between therapists' scores on the Community Mental Health
Ideology Scale and the Democratic Values Scale and their ratings of patient case histories …

Five hundred ninety‐five staff at 20 CMHCs were surveyed as part of a large study of mental
health worker roles. Data on the endorsement of the ideology of community mental health …

Studies have indicated that rural America suffers from what has been described as a" health
resources imbalance": high rates of physical and mental disorder coupled with a shortage of …