1. How Families Evaluate Mental Health Professionals, Resources, and Effects of Illness
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Deborah F. Holden and Richard R.J. Lewine
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Adult ,Halfway Houses ,Male ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Emotional support ,Home Nursing ,education ,Psychological intervention ,Professional-Family Relations ,medicine ,Humans ,Psychiatry ,Aged ,Mental health law ,business.industry ,Mentally ill ,Mail survey ,Consumer Behavior ,Middle Aged ,Prognosis ,Mental health ,Community Mental Health Services ,Self-Help Groups ,Psychiatry and Mental health ,Chronic mental illness ,Schizophrenia ,Health Resources ,Female ,Schizophrenic Psychology ,business ,Social Adjustment ,Deinstitutionalization ,Clinical psychology - Abstract
Evaluations by families (of chronically mentally ill individuals) of mental health professionals and resources were solicited through a mail survey. The respondents, largely better educated, white, and female, indicated a generally high level of dissatisfaction. Emotional support, information, and aftercare resources were identified as particular areas of concern. The survey findings present a challenge to mental health professionals to reconsider the effects of chronic mental illness on the family and the needs of the non-ill family members.
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- 1982
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