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Training and treatment costs in a community mental health center

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Defining and allocating training costs among CMHC programs is troublesome but necessary. A method for doing this is offered, demonstrating that services by some students approximate the costs of their training. A CMHC may require subsidies to train others.

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  • MacLeod, Roderick K. Program budgeting works in nonprofit institutions.Harvard Business Review, Sept.–Oct., 1971.

  • Van Buskirk, David. “A Method for Mental Health Center Cost Accounting.” Paper presented to seminar on Planning Programming Budgeting (PPBS) Systems (MIT-Harvard), Cambridge, Mass., 1972.

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  1. the South Shore Mental Health Center in Quincy, Mass.

    David Van Buskirk (director)

  2. Tufts University School of Medicine, USA

    David Van Buskirk (director)

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Van Buskirk, D. Training and treatment costs in a community mental health center. Administration in Mental Health 2, 28–36 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02249802

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