| What about the patient? | |
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PMID: 10073376 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE |
Abstract/OtherAbstract:
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Our mental health care system fails to serve the very people whose suffering that system ostensibly exists to alleviate. This article relates the stories of 3 people who fell through the cracks of this system. An alternative approach, the Integrated Services Agency (ISA), has been implemented in California and offers hope to persons with schizophrenia. The ISA approach focuses on the expressed needs of the members it exists to serve, and both members and staff have experienced changes in their roles and expectations. Staff and members have learned that engagement with the "outside world" involves taking risks but that risk avoidance only perpetuates the status quo. The ISA approach rewards growth and patients' being well rather than rewarding docility and illness. Medication is neither ordered nor assigned, but chosen in a collaboration between staff and members. ISAs have returned care to the mental health care system. |
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Authors:
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D E Weisburd |
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Publication Detail:
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Type: Case Reports; Journal Article |
Journal Detail:
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Title: The Journal of clinical psychiatry Volume: 60 Suppl 3 ISSN: 0160-6689 ISO Abbreviation: J Clin Psychiatry Publication Date: 1999 |
Date Detail:
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Created Date: 1999-03-15 Completed Date: 1999-03-15 Revised Date: 2004-11-17 |
Medline Journal Info:
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Nlm Unique ID: 7801243 Medline TA: J Clin Psychiatry Country: UNITED STATES |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 38-41 Citation Subset: IM |
Affiliation:
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The Journal: Quarterly Publication of the California Alliance for the Mentally Ill, Toluca Lake, Calif, USA. |
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California Community Mental Health Services / economics, organization & administration Comprehensive Health Care / economics, organization & administration Female Health Services Needs and Demand Humans Insurance, Psychiatric / economics Male Schizophrenia / drug therapy, economics*, therapy* |
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