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Integrating mental handicap registers with service provision
Author(s) -
Cubbon John
Publication year - 1985
Publication title -
journal of the british institute of mental handicap (apex)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.633
H-Index - 39
eISSN - 1468-3156
pISSN - 0261-9997
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-3156.1985.tb00283.x
Subject(s) - mental handicap , multidisciplinary approach , service (business) , register (sociolinguistics) , set (abstract data type) , social work , psychology , nursing , medicine , business , psychiatry , computer science , political science , programming language , linguistics , philosophy , marketing , law
SUMMARY. There is growing support for specialist social workers and other CMHT members to have contact with all the people in their area who are mentally handicapped, and for widespread use of regular multidisciplinary reviews. As well as having preventive and other functions, these processes provide the basis for a mental handicap register which can hold all the data needed in planning. If there is contact with the great majority of people with mental handicap in a district or if the users of mental handicap services are regularly reviewed, registers can be set up at almost no extra expense. However, many districts do not yet have the necessary contact or review system. The possibility of integrating registers with service provision should be considered by the many authorities planning to set up registers.