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A developmental view of the comprehensive community mental health concept

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Apprehension and doubt about the Comprehensive Community Mental Health Center (CCMHC) service programs are felt by both mental health professionals and local and state government officials who have yet to see the comprehensive center operate independent of Federal financial support and consistent with the concept of total service. Critics and pessimists must recognize that the CCMHC must initially establish and maintain itself amid a network of local social and rehabilitation agencies before the goals spelled out as essential elements of service can be achieved. It is suggested that there are critical factors that affect the evolvement from Phase 1, in which the CCMHC directs attention to its own survival, to Phase 2, when the CCMHC can begin to deal effectively with the local problems of mental health.

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  1. 2363 Sherbrook St., 15217, Pittsburgh, Pa.

    Michael J. Austin M.S.W. (doctoral candidate in social work research and public health)

  2. University of Pittsburgh, USA

    Michael J. Austin M.S.W. (doctoral candidate in social work research and public health)

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At the time this paper was written he was a consultant in social work at the National Institute of Mental Health, Region VIII, Denver, Colorado. This paper was presented, in part, to the third annual Joint Meeting of the Clinical Society and the Commissioned Officers Association of the U.S. Public Health Service, San Francisco, March 1968. The author is indebted to Dr. Melvin B. Mogulof for the conceptual framework and schema developed in the paper.

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Austin, M.J. A developmental view of the comprehensive community mental health concept. Community Ment Health J 5, 156–163 (1969). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01420020

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