TY - JOUR
T1 - The Greater Vancouver Mental Health Service Society
T2 - 20 years' experience in urban community mental health
AU - Sladen-Dew, N.
AU - Bigelow, D. A.
AU - Buckley, R.
AU - Bornemann, S.
PY - 1993
Y1 - 1993
N2 - Caring for people in the community with persistent and disabling mental illnesses presents a major challenge to government, planners and mental health professionals. The success with which mentally disabled people are integrated into community life says much about the society in which we live. This article describes the experience of the Greater Vancouver Mental Health Service Society in offering community-based mental health services to persons with schizophrenia and other major mental disorders over the past 20 years. The key to its success lies in a decentralized, relatively non hierarchical organizational structure which allows committed and skilled multidisciplinary teams to work with patients and their families in their community. The resulting services are fully integrated within the fabric of the community and are responsive to local needs. Partnerships among professionals, patients, families and community agencies result in work that is creative, productive and effective.
AB - Caring for people in the community with persistent and disabling mental illnesses presents a major challenge to government, planners and mental health professionals. The success with which mentally disabled people are integrated into community life says much about the society in which we live. This article describes the experience of the Greater Vancouver Mental Health Service Society in offering community-based mental health services to persons with schizophrenia and other major mental disorders over the past 20 years. The key to its success lies in a decentralized, relatively non hierarchical organizational structure which allows committed and skilled multidisciplinary teams to work with patients and their families in their community. The resulting services are fully integrated within the fabric of the community and are responsive to local needs. Partnerships among professionals, patients, families and community agencies result in work that is creative, productive and effective.
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U2 - 10.1177/070674379303800504
DO - 10.1177/070674379303800504
M3 - Short survey
C2 - 8348468
AN - SCOPUS:0027194633
SN - 0706-7437
VL - 38
SP - 308
EP - 314
JO - Canadian Journal of Psychiatry
JF - Canadian Journal of Psychiatry
IS - 5
ER -