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The issue of accountability in state hospitals and state schools-hospitals can be expected to remain paramount in the future. Almost all areas of mental health services are being scrutinized by consumers who are demanding more for their money. From the Prespective of the mental administrator consumers will have to become a more meaningful part of the decision making process to produce productive changes in these human service fields. Thus, to this end, human service institutions must have the ability to function as open systems and must develop a sense of responsiveness to their consumers' needs.
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Sneed, Ralph J., Ph.D.—is a former Assistant Supt. of Treatment at St. Louis State School-Hospital and consultant in Stress Management at St. Louis University Hospitals, Department of Health Promotion. He currently is Superintendent at the North Jersey Developmental Center in Totowa, New Jersey, a 763 bed residential facility, Dr. Sneed earned his doctorate in Psychology from St. Louis University.
Lee, James R., Jr. M.S.Ed.—is the former Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor and former Unit 19 Director at St. Lot.is State School and Hospital, currently the Unit 2 Director at St. Louis State Hospital. He received a masters in Vocational Rehabilitation Counseling and Administration from the University of Missouri at Columbia and received a second masters from Webster University in December 1983 in Marketing and Management.
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Sneed, R.J., Lee, J.R. Issues of accountability in mental health administration. Journal of Mental Health Administration 11, 17–19 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02829020
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