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Program evaluation and planning in a community mental health service

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This paper deals with a variety of issues involved in program evaluation and planning in a new community mental health service, the Washington Heights Community Service. The demographic and psychopathological characteristics of the hospitalized seriously ill on this service are described. The psychopathology of this group is compared with out-patients and non-patients from the same general community and their differentiating characteristics are delineated. These data have been used in the development of a hospital program involving in-patient, partial hospitalization and after-care and designed to meet the specific needs of this hospitalized population.

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    Alvin M. Mesnikoff M.D., Robert L. Spitzer M.D. & Jean Endicott Ph.D.

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From the Washington Heights Community Service, New York State Psychiatric Institute; Biometrics Research, New York State Department of Mental Hygiene; and Columbia University Department of Psychiatry.

This project was partially supported by NIMH Grants 1 R20 MH01957 and MH08534. The paper was presented to the annual meeting of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology at San Juan, Puerto Rico, December 7–9, 1966.

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Mesnikoff, A.M., Spitzer, R.L. & Endicott, J. Program evaluation and planning in a community mental health service. Psych Quar 41, 405–421 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01562607

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