Correspondence of staff-client evaluations of discharge readiness and nontreatment therapeutic events
✍ Scribed by Ph.D. James K. Morrison; Barbara Pitchford; Norman Dovberg; Frederick J. Smith
- Book ID
- 101362005
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1977
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 326 KB
- Volume
- 5
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0090-4392
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✦ Synopsis
A follow-up telephone survei of clients discharged from a community mental health clinic indicated a hig degree of agreement between contacted clients and their clinician-advisors concerning the readiness of clients for discharge, the number and effect of nontreatment therapeutic events, and the frequency with which clients seek alternate psychiatric services after discharge. Contacted and noncontacted groups were similar, except that the latter grou included significantly more clients who had initiated termination against staft advice. It was recommended that future discharge studiw concentrate more on contactin the difficult-to-reach clients in order to obtain a more accurate impression o f a clinic's treatment. effectiveness.