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J T Barter

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PubMed1984

Friends can be good medicine: an excursion into mental health promotion.

This paper describes Friends Can Be Good Medicine, a multi-media, mental health promotion campaign conducted in 1982 throughout California. The creative design, pilot-test, implementation and results are reviewed. Conceptually, Friends was derived from evidence linking supportive personal relationships with increased physical and mental health. Three major campaign elements were: broadcast media, an array of educational materials, and community activities. Evaluation findings revealed that Friends was most effective when campaign elements reinforced one another. Resulting changes in knowledge, attitudes, and intentions among those reached by Friends were maintained after one year. It is contended that, for better or worse, mass media is part of the health care system.

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PubMed1984

A psychoeducational approach to educating chronic mental patients for community living.

The psychoeducational approach to psychiatric illness addresses the need for better information about mental illness and its treatment for the patient and family. Most programs focus on the family and its involvement with the patient; in a social rehabilitation program in Sacramento, California, the staff use psychoeducational techniques with chronic psychiatric patients living in the community apart from their families. Educational approaches are employed in all aspects of the program but are most extensively used in the transitional employment service, through work readiness seminars and a graduated continuum of volunteer service, training, and employment; in the adult basic education program; and in the medication education project, which includes weekly seminars for patients and a variety of written materials.

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PubMed1983

Psychiatric roles in the community mental health center.

The original model for the community mental health center was a health-oriented treatment facility associated with a community hospital, operated under medical leadership, and staffed with other mental health professionals. For a variety of reasons, the number and role of psychiatrists in the centers have declined significantly. Of the psychiatrists who remain, many are employed only part time and are relegated to signing prescriptions and insurance forms. These developments have the potential for causing the neglect of acutely and chronically ill patients. Reversal of the trends requires a redefinition of the roles of professionals on the mental health team and a variety of other efforts by the centers themselves, psychiatric training programs, the psychiatric profession, and the federal government.

Community Mental Health Centers↗
PubMed1975

California: Sacramento County's experience with community care.

Since 1969 treatment of the mentally ill in California has shifted from the use of large state institutions to reliance on community-based programs. The author describes the shift, the legislation precipitating it, and the public controversy surrounding the closing of state mental hospitals. The Sacramento County Mental Health Services handled the change to community care by contracting with the School of Medicine of the University of California at Davis to provide the necessary leadership and service programs; a crisis intervention approach was used.

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