The Therapeutic Farm Community: An Innovative Intervention for Mental Illness

An innovative program for community-residing older adults with serious mental illness.

This chapter highlights the Community Connections Project, a program of innovative services for the seriously mentally ill elderly, funded as a three-year demonstration project by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Since its inception in 1988, the project has served'over 160 acutely or persistently mentally ill older adults each year. The project site, Senior Health and Peer Counseling in Sant...

Community treatment of mental illness.

THE isolation of the mental hospital, which was practically absolute before the Mental Treatment Act of 1930, is rapidly disappearing, and more and more psychiatric patients are being treated in the community instead of in the hospital. The hospital’s first link with the community was the outpatient department. Later liaison was gradually established with outside services such as probation depa...

Family and community responses to mental illness.

Cultural groups respond differently to mental illness depending on the explanations of the cause, attitudes in the community toward mental illness and its treatment, and the social and community resources available to patients and their families. Our column last month explored these explanations and attitudes. This column focuses on family and community treatment of mental illness and the care ...

Community attitudes to mental illness in Edinburgh.

A church-based peer-led group intervention for mental illness