Abstract
Clients disabled by psychiatric illness may be assigned mental health clinicians as payees. We compared client–payee interactions among 42 clients with clinician-payees, 20 whose payees were family or friends and nine with attorney-payees. Compared to clients with attorney-payees, clients with clinician-payees felt more satisfied and more involved in their money management, and had had more contacts with their payees in the previous month. Clients’ satisfaction with family/friend payees was similar to that with clinician payees. In multivariate analyses, whether or not the payee had had training about mental illness accounted for 33% of the variance in satisfaction with the payee.
References
A. W. Brotman J. J. Muller (1990) ArticleTitleThe therapist as representative payee Hospital & Community Psychiatry 41 IssueID2 167–171
S.H. Cogswell (1996) Entitlements, payees and coercion J. Monahan (Eds) Coercion and aggressive community treatment: A new frontier in mental health law Plenum Press New York, NY, USA 115–125
L. R. Derogatis N. Spencer (1982) The Brief Symptom Index: Administration, scoring and procedure manual John Hopkins Baltimore, MD
L. Dixon J. Turner N. Krauss J. Scott S. McNary (1999) ArticleTitleCase managers’ and clients; perspectives on a representative payee program Psychiatric Services 50 IssueID6 781–786 Occurrence Handle1:STN:280:DyaK1MzgtFKrsQ%3D%3D Occurrence Handle10375147
E. B. Elbogen J. W. Swanson M .S. Swartz H. R. Wagner (2003) ArticleTitleCharacteristics of third-party money management for persons with psychiatric disabilities Psychiatric Services 54 IssueID8 1136–1141 Occurrence Handle12883142
P. Hanrahan D. J. Luchins C. Savage G. Patrick D. Roberts K. J. Conrad (2002) ArticleTitleRepresentative payee programs for persons with mental illness in Illinois Psychiatric Services 53 IssueID2 190–194 Occurrence Handle11821550
D. J. Luchins P. Hanrahan K. J. Conrad C. Savage M. D. Matters M. Shinderman (1998) ArticleTitleAn agency-based representative payee program and improved community tenure of persons with mental illness Psychiatric Services 49 IssueID9 1218–1222 Occurrence Handle1:STN:280:DyaK1cvgsFeksQ%3D%3D Occurrence Handle9735966
A. T. McLellan K. Kushner D. Metzger R. Peters I. Smith G. Grissom H. Pettinati M. Argeriou (1992) The fifth edition of the Addiction Severity Index Penn-VA Center for Studies of Addicition, VA Medical Center Philadelphia, PA, USA
R. K. Ries K. A. Comtois (1997) ArticleTitleManaging disability benefits as part of treatment for persons with severe mental illness and comorbid drug/alcohol disorders. A comparative study of payee and non-payee participants American Journal on Addictions 6 IssueID4 330–338 Occurrence Handle1:STN:280:DyaK1c%2FmtFaltA%3D%3D Occurrence Handle9398931
R. K. Ries D. G. Dyck (1997) ArticleTitleRepresentative payee practices of community mental health centers in Washington State Psychiatric Services 48 IssueID6 811–814 Occurrence Handle1:STN:280:ByiA3MfitlY%3D Occurrence Handle9175191
R. K. Ries C. Jaffe K. A. Comtois M. Kitchell (1999) ArticleTitleTreatment satisfaction compared with outcome in severe dual disorders Community Mental Health Journal 35 IssueID3 213–221 Occurrence Handle1:STN:280:DyaK1MzivVeiug%3D%3D Occurrence Handle10401891
M. I. Rosen R. Desai M. Bailey L. Davidson R. Rosenheck (2001) ArticleTitleConsumer experience with payeeship provided by a community mental health center Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal 25 IssueID2 190–195 Occurrence Handle1:STN:280:DC%2BD38%2Fkt12jsw%3D%3D Occurrence Handle11769986
M. I. Rosen R. Rosenheck A. Shaner T. Eckman G. Gamache C. Krebs (2003) ArticleTitlePayee relationships: Institutional payees versus personal acquaintances Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal 26 IssueID3 262–267 Occurrence Handle12653448
J. Russo P. Roy-Byrne D. Reeder M. Alexander E. Dwyer-O’Connor C. Dagadakis R. Ries D. Patrick (1997) ArticleTitleLongitudinal assessment of quality of life in acute psychiatric inpatients: Reliability and validity Journal of Nervous & Mental Disease 185 IssueID3 166–175
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Rights and permissions
About this article
Cite this article
Rosen, M.I., Bailey, M., Dombrowski, E. et al. A Comparison of Satisfaction with Clinician, Family Members/Friends and Attorneys as Payees. Community Ment Health J 41, 291–306 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10597-005-5003-0
Issue Date:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10597-005-5003-0