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Community Psychiatry — (See Beers, Clifford; also Psychotherapy: group psychotherapy; therapeutic community [both 1939].) The premise of community psychiatry is that patients with serious illnesses are best treated in the community rather than in closed mental… … Historical dictionary of Psychiatry
Psychiatry — is a medical specialty which exists to study, prevent, and treat mental disorders in humans. Psychiatric assessment typically involves a mental status examination and taking a case history, and psychological tests may be administered. Physical… … Wikipedia
Community mental health services — (CMHS) support or treat people with mental disorders (mental illness or mental health difficulties) while they continue to live in their own homes, rather than being admitted to more remote institutions such as psychiatric hospitals (asylums).… … Wikipedia
Community counselor — Community counselors provide counselling for traumatized communities in the aftermath of large scale natural disasters. They are trained in basic psychological techniques but are not necessarily professional psychologists. While the concept of… … Wikipedia
Community health worker — Community health workers (CHW) are members of a community who are chosen by community members or organizations to provide basic health and medical care to their community. Other names for this type of health care provider include village health… … Wikipedia
Community reinforcement and family training — Community reinforcement approach (CRA) and community reinforcement and family training approach (CRAFT) are behavior therapy approaches to treating substance abuse. Contents 1 Research 2 Drug policy 3 Professional organizations … Wikipedia
Community health — Community health, a field of public health, is a discipline that concerns itself with the study and betterment of the health characteristics of biological communities. While the term community can be broadly defined, community health tends to… … Wikipedia
Psychiatry — The medical specialty concerned with the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of mental illness. Psychiatrists are MDs who receive additional training and serve a supervised residency in their specialty. They may also have additional training in… … Medical dictionary
Community mental health service — Psychology … Wikipedia
psychiatry — A medical speciality, whose boundaries have always been contested, which focuses on the care and treatment of mental disorders. It developed as a professional grouping in the first half of the nineteenth century: the term was coined in Germany in … Dictionary of sociology
