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The Mental Health Needs of Different Age Groups Within an Urban Community as Perceived by Service Providers and Service Recipients Within That Community

Abstract: This investigation sought to determine whether the mental health need ratings of any given group or groups would be given priority over other age groups in the Rogers Park Community of Chicago. The study also sought to ascertain whether potential mental health service providers and potential mental health service recipients would differ in the priorit~es they assigned to various age groups. The study was carried out by administering a questionnaire to 60 . randomly selected potential service providers (20 teachers, 20 clergy, 20 social service agency representatives) working in Rogers Park, and to 20 potential service recipients (randomly selected residents of Rogers Park). The questionnaire consisted of a list of 34 potential services that could feasibly be provided by a Community Mental Health Center. Each potential service was rated by the £s as to the apparent need of such a service on a 5 point scale. Selected services were pertinant to the following age groups: preschool, elementary school ~ge, teenage, young adult, middle age, senior citizen. All ratings were done irdividually. The ratings were analyzed using a factorial design. Neither the main effects nor the interactions reached an acceptable level of significance. The results were interpreted as suggesting that potential service providers and potential service recipients are essentially in agreement as to the mental health needs of the community. Further, while both recipients and providers recognize a strong need for mental health servic~s of all kinds for the Rogers Park Community, no age group was seen as_ being in greater need of service than any other age group.