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Social approaches to community mental health via intake or central reception services

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Like other services of the mental health center, the intake service should be an agent of constructive community change and development. The potential for community influence is manifest in the sheer numbers of people who pass through intake in a year. For this potential to be realized, the average worker must undergo a sizeable reorientation in treatment philosophy, professional knowledge, and style of work. The principles that emerged from an examination and critique of Maimonides Central Reception Service are presented, with illustrative cases.

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  1. Maimonides Community Mental Health Center, 4802 Tenth Avenue, 11219, Brooklyn, New York

    Eugene B. Nadler Ph.D. (Social Scientist)

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An abbreviated version of this paper was read at the annual meeting of the American Orthopsychiatric Association, Washington, D.C., March, 1971.

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Nadler, E.B. Social approaches to community mental health via intake or central reception services. Community Ment Health J 9, 361–367 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01410873

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