Download Author: Cohen, Raquel E.

2 eBooks available.

Working with Schools

When mental health services are well organized within a school, they tend to be integrated into the ongoing activities of the educational system. The professionals who staff these services have easy access to information from the teacher or the principal and are sanctioned to enter the children’s homes and obtain relevant material from community agencies. This means, then, that the mental health professional working within the special education system can be integrated further into the rest of the system as his efforts and activities are seen as useful and as he participates in a meaningful way with areas of concern of administrators and teachers. (28 pp.)

Community Organizational Aspects of Establishing and Maintaining a Local Program

The psychiatrist will need to critically reexamine assumptions, experiences, traditions, and models that guided him in the past and to explore new pathways and develop innovative solutions to longstanding, long-neglected problems, aided by the findings of other disciplines, ranging from the political and managerial to the biological sciences, which are now just beginning to be integrated into the field of community psychiatry. (38 pp.)