Biomedical subjects
Publications and source records attributed to L Blanchet.
The author gives a brief history of psychiatry in Quebec and attempts to show that economic factors influence social evolution. After having shown that the costs of mental health reach $ 500 millions, he makes an appeal for the rationalization of services in this time of economic austerity.
After a brief critical analysis of some of the limitations of community psychiatry, the authors give an historical review of the social psychiatric network and its characteristics. They then describe their manner of applying the network concept, an approach whose originality consists in asking the patient to reunite his primary network (family, friends, neighbours, etc.) in order to identify the problems and to determine how (the network) can help. They develop a different approach from that of community psychiatry, by emphasizing the role of primary networks as emotional support structures and as a non-psychiatric solution. However, the network intervention is not presented as a cure-all and the authors conclude by describing the limitations of their approach.
The Pointe St-Charles Community Clinic is a popular, user-run clinic, where psychiatric treatment is integrated into the services of the medical-social teams, and where, more globally, an attitude of a collective responsability for mental health is beginning to develop as a result of the active involvement, on the part of both clinic workers and users, in the social change process and the optimal use of the natural community ressource network.
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