Paradoxes in Programming for Chronic Patients in a Community Clinic
Abstract
In attempting to build a successful program for chronic patients at the Somerville (Mass.) Mental Health Clinic, the authors first found it necessary to uncover, address, and resolve six fundamental paradoxes engendered by deinstitutionalization that were stressful to mental health clinic staff and inhibited effective programming. The paradoxes involve issues relating to community mental health ideology, clinicians' sources of self-esteem and professional ability, and clinicians' views of chronicity and the deinstitutionalization movement in general. Resolution of the paradoxes requires major value changes, which can be brought about by effective clinical leaders who serve as role models and teachers, and who set the tone for patient care.
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