Sheltered-Care Needs of the Mentally Ill

Mentally ill youth: meeting service needs.

The Pastoral Care of the Mentally Ill

Community care for the chronically mentally ill.

This article has presented the background, history, examples, and analyses of community care programs for the chronically mentally ill. From these data, it is concluded that such programs are as if not more effective an cost-efficient than conventional inpatient programs plus conventional follow-up for this population. The future, however, may depend much more on current political and economic ...

The "New Look" in the Care of the Mentally Ill

The following article by S. W. Hardwick, M.D., M.R.C.P., D.P.M., has been compiled from views expressed in a report on the Report of the Royal Commission on the Law relating to Mental Illness and Mental Deficiency, prepared by the Group Medical Committee of the Darenth and Stone Hospital Management Committee, which administers a hospital for Mental and Nervous Disorders and a Mental Deficiency ...

Mental health, care and management of the mentally ill.

Mental and physical health are closely related; it is considered that no health exists without mental health. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), a significant number of individuals in the general population can develop mental disorders, conditions which affect their personal, familial and social life and constitute an important cause of impairment. It is currently considered that...