More Than a Gateway: The Role of the Emergency Psychiatry Service in the Community Mental Health Network

1985 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 180-185 ◽  
Author(s):  
James M. Ellison ◽  
Elizabeth A. Wharff
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Community Mental Health ◽  
Emergency Psychiatry ◽  
Health Network

The Role of the Occupational Therapist in a Community Mental Health Centre in Greece

1986 ◽  
Vol 49 (12) ◽  
pp. 389-391 ◽  
Author(s):  
I Tsipra ◽  
P Voutsina ◽  
E Charitaki ◽  
V Tomaras ◽  
A Kapsali ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Community Mental Health ◽  
Health Centre ◽  
Occupational Therapist ◽  
Community Mental Health Centre ◽  
Rehabilitation Unit ◽  
Care Programme ◽  
Mental Health Centre ◽  
Schizophrenic Patients

This article deals with a developing rehabilitation unit for mentally ill people, mostly chronic schizophrenic patients, which has been integrated into the Community Mental Health Centre of two Athenian boroughs. The unit includes a day care programme, a vocational training workshop and a social therapeutic club. All these programmes have been developed for the first time in Greece at a certain community level. The authors describe the rationale and the structure of the rehabilitation unit and the role of the occupational therapist.

Multidisciplinary or Nondisciplinary: Evaluation of Staff Functioning in a Community Mental Health Centre

1984 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 172-178 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jerzy Krupnski ◽  
Lenora Lippmann
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Community Mental Health ◽  
Health Centre ◽  
Community Mental Health Centre ◽  
Staff Members ◽  
Active Involvement ◽  
Leading Role ◽  
Mental Health Centre ◽  
Community Roles

This paper describes the staffing aspects of an experimental community mental health centre (Melville Clinic). The different components of staff roles of members of a team consisting of different health professionals, crystallised during the three-year period with a shift from a ‘nondisciplinary’ to a ‘multidisciplinary’ approach, with preservation of ‘generalised’ and ‘specialised’, ‘clinical’ and ‘community’ roles of all staff members. The decision-making in the centre oscillated between group decisions by all staff members, and the acceptance of the leading role of the psychiatrist with the active Involvement of the test of the staff. This paper provides a model for multidisciplinary teamwork in community mental health centres.

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