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A Bene-Kociemba

Publications and source records attributed to A Bene-Kociemba.

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PubMed1982

Assessing patient satisfaction with state hospital and aftercare services.

To assess patients' satisfaction with state hospital and aftercare services, the authors administered an open-ended interview to 22 former state hospital patients. The patients expressed marked dissatisfaction with their treatment in the hospital, but 78% said they were helped by the aftercare services. Important components of their satisfaction were feeling helped, feeling understood, and feeling that the aftercare worker was available when needed. Frequency and length of meetings and types of assistance were not related to satisfaction. The patients reported that the psychotherapeutic and task-oriented assistance were equally helpful.

Adult↗
PubMed1980

A mental health center's aftercare specialty service for discharged state hospital patients.

To serve discharged state hospital patients from its catchment area, a mental health and retardation center established an ambulatory community service that has total responsiblity for the community care of those patients. The service is staffed primarily by mental health workers and nurses. They become members of the neighborhood-based teams on the state hosptial unit and take part regularly in discharge planning with patients and hospital staff. They also provide a range of continuing outpatient and support services, including medication review, development of housing placements and recreational activities, and psychiatric follow-up. The service operates as a specialized, autonomous unit, which allows it to shift staff resources in line with changes in patient and program needs, to allocate time for program development, and to pressure other agencies to develop needed services.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1979

The effect of deinstitutionalization on a general hospital's inpatient psychiatric service.

As a result of the deinstitutionalization movement, increasing numbers of former state hospital patients are being rehospitalized in general hospital psychiatric units. Because of this change in patient population, the general hospital has had to adjust its treatment strategy to emphasize meticulous review of previous psychiatric history, including medications; plans for meeting the patients' posthospital housing, vocational, and social needs; and development of plans with community care-givers for continuing care. General hospital staff members have to be educated to develop competence in working with the new patient population and a tolerance for chronicity; that can be done through several forums ranging from large staff meetings to individual supervision.

Adult↗