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Mental health care in the community: an evaluative study.
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The results indicate that the experimental service conferred some benefit on the patient population.Abstract:
A study was designed to assess the therapeutic value of attaching a social worker to a metropolitan group practice in the management of chronic neurotic illness. The psychiatric and social status of a group of patients before treatment and after one year was compared with the status of a control group treated more conventionally over the same period. The results indicate that the experimental service conferred some benefit on the patient population.read more
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Integrated Primary Care: Organizing the Evidence.
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The Assessment of Social Adjustment: An Update
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Design, development and use of a standardized interview to assess social maladjustment and dysfunction in community studies
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TL;DR: A standardized social interview, designed to assess social maladjustment and dysfunction is described, and the use of the schedule in a number of studies in the setting of general practice is described.
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The construction, development and testing of a self-report questionnaire to identify social problems
TL;DR: The construction and testing of a short self-report questionnaire identifying social problems, difficulties and dissatisfactions is described and a final version is included in the Appendix.
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Sex differences in minor psychiatric morbidity.
TL;DR: Whether there is a sex difference in the constitutional vulnerability of the male and female phenotype to minor psychiatric morbidity among a homogeneous group of men and women of similar age, education and occupation, and subject to similar levels of social stress and support is assessed.
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D. P. Goldberg,B. Blackwell +1 more
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Is casework effective? a review
TL;DR: The core of professional practice is a commitment to competence, a commitment that most directly refers to a concern with the effective carrying out of professional services as mentioned in this paper. But this commitment has been criticised consistently and most dramatically for its failure to demonstrate clearly effectiveness in helping clients.
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The Psychiatric patient, the general practitioner, and the outpatient clinic: an operational study and a review
A. C. Kaeser,Brian Cooper +1 more
TL;DR: A sample of general practitioner referrals to a Psychiatric teaching centre was investigated by means of standard interviews, first with the practitioners and subsequently with the patients, related to previous work in this field.