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B D Brook

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PubMed1981

Community homes as hospital alternatives for youth in crisis.

The youth alternative home network is built on trust and open communication between sponsors, therapist, and home coordinators. The therapist's primary concern is to th client, while the home coordinator, although concerned with the client's treatment, focused mainly on the sponsor's needs and responses. This unique model of integrating youth foster homes into a community mental health center provides clients with a needed noninstitutional evaluation and treatment option. It also may assist youths in acquiring skills needed for emancipation and independent living. Hopefully, other community mental health programs will explore prehospital family alternatives within their own clinical services and communities as an additional avenue of treatment for children and adolescents.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1980

Community families: a seven-year program perspective.

During the past seven years, Southwest Denver Community Mental Health Services, Inc., has made use of an alternative network of families in lieu of psychiatric hospitalization. This particular article focuses on its key operational aspects and considers recruitment, screening, and support structures which have enabled the project to become a viable community mental health center program. In addition, there is a discussion of the limitations of the system and how it might be integrated with psychiatric hospital services.

Colorado↗
PubMed1976

Community families: an alternative to psychiatric hospital intensive care.

For the past four years Southwest Denver Community Mental Health Services, Inc., has had a system of alternative families who take one or two psychiatric patients who need intensive treatment into their homes; the clients' average stay is ten days. Thus far approximately 220 client placements have been effectively carried out in a network of five homes. Clients who receive psychotropic medication have its effects monitored by a staff psychiatrist, medical nurse coordinator, and nurse clinician. A study conducted by independent researchers over the initial two-year period indicates that the homes are more effective in certain respects than a psychiatric hospital in providing intensive care.

Adult↗