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The community residential treatment service: Developing a Continuum of prosthetic environments for the chronically disabled
Author(s) -
Lieberman Harvey J.,
Campanelli Peter C.,
Hahn Dale,
Beck Jeffrey,
Weston Raymond,
Sacks JoAnn Y.,
Gordon Adam,
Tabot Andrea
Publication year - 1985
Publication title -
journal of community psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.585
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 1520-6629
pISSN - 0090-4392
DOI - 10.1002/1520-6629(198501)13:1<46::aid-jcop2290130106>3.0.co;2-i
Subject(s) - continuum of care , service (business) , service system , service delivery framework , community service , nursing , business , medicine , process management , operations management , public relations , health care , engineering , marketing , political science , law
Among the many issues regarding the care of chronic mental patients, none is more pressing than the need for administrative and clinical models designed to organize and systematize the efforts of diverse community service providers. This paper describes the functioning of the Community Residential Treatment Service of the South Beach Psychiatric Center, a large‐scale project of a state facility created to respond to this issue. By blending sophisticated clinical and administrative technology, programs operated by the state, voluntary, and proprietary health care sectors have been integrated to form a balanced service delivery system. This system provides a broad continuum of inpatient and outpatient residential settings developed in accordance with social learning principles. The components of the system, with the Community Residential Treatment Service as the major integrative force, are linked together by detailed contracts as well as common behavioral clinical and behavioral administrative language. The treatment successes of this sytem have been significant enough to suggest that a positive synergistic effect is generated by this programming combination.