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This article reports on a study of discharged state psychiatric hospital patients who subsequently received community mental health services. All received standard services, including case management, chemotherapy, emergency services, and group and/or individual therapy. A comparison of those who received both rehabilitation and standard services and those who received only standard services, revealed that blacks were less likely to receive rehabilitation. Nonschizophrenic and substance abusing clients were less likely to receive rehabilitation services. Those clients who received rehabilitation services generally received a greater amount of all types of services.
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Phyllis Solomon, Ph.D. was director of the Commission on Mental Health of the Federation for Community Planning in Cleveland, Ohio at the time of the study. She is at the Department of Mental Health Sciences, Hahnemann University, Philadelphia, PA. Barry Gordon, Ph.D. was a mental health consultant of the Federation for Community Planning, Cleveland, Ohio at the time of the study.
This Research was funded by grants from the Office of Program Evaluation and Research, Ohio Department of Mental Health.
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Solomon, P., Gordon, B. The differential receipt of rehabilitation services among an aftercare population. Adm Policy Ment Health 16, 99–106 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00706108
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00706108