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Longitudinal Exposure to the Seriously Mentally Ill: A Halfway House Affiliation
Al Santos,Barbara Julius +1 more
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The authors discuss advantages to such affiliations and illustrate these with the affiliation of a halfway house with a psychiatry residency training program.Abstract:
Psychiatric training takes place predominantly in institutional settings such as hospitals and outpatient clinics. There are significant benefits associated with training in community “field” sites. Conversely, training programs can be valuable resources for agencies providing residential and/or rehabilitative care for the mentally ill The authors discuss advantages to such affiliations and illustrate these with the affiliation of a halfway house with a psychiatry residency training program.read more
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A community-based public-academic liaison program.
Alberto B. Santos,James C. Ballenger,Joseph J. Bevilacqua,Joseph J. Zealberg,Thomas G. Hiers,Steven McLeod-Bryant,Paul A. Deci,Laura J. Rames +7 more
TL;DR: These collaborations illustrate the highly complementary relationship of public-academic liaison activities and their potential capacity to improve access to services, substantially improve the quality of these services, generate extramural support for services research, and increase the number of well-trained professionals in the public sector.
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Alternative to Mental Hospital Treatment: I. Conceptual Model, Treatment Program, and Clinical Evaluation
Leonard I. Stein,Mary Ann Test +1 more
TL;DR: Use of the community program for 14 months greatly reduced the need to hospitalize patients and enhanced the community tenure and adjustment of the experimental patients, and the results suggest that community programming should be comprehensive and ongoing.
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Psychiatric residency training and the changing economic scene.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss how these developments are impinging on residency training programs and what the programs can do to meet the challenges they pose and argue that psychiatry will be best served by resisting tendencies to compromise on the quality of training for its future practitioners.