Reframe your outlook on recidivism |
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Authors: | L H Beebe |
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Institution: | Mental Hygiene Clinic, Veterans Administration Medical Center, Huntington, West Virginia. |
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Abstract: | 1. Deinstitutionalization has placed many chronically mentally ill people in communities that are not prepared to care for them. A lack of fit between clients and the programs provided often results in repeated visits to psychiatric emergency services. 2. Repeated visits to a community program can be viewed positively: community services carry less stigma than hospital admissions, they are less expensive, and they are directly linked with the community. 3. By encouraging a return to a community program before decompensation necessitates a hospital admission, it becomes possible to focus on how a client can cope with, rather than simply react to, the illness. |
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