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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
7
pubmed:dateCreated
1982-1-20
pubmed:abstractText
The Canadian Psychiatric Association recommends: 1. In this International Year of Disabled Persons, that the needs of the chronic neural patient be publicized with emphasis on the potential for improvement if these needs are adequately met. A working definition of the chronic mental patient refers to those members of society who suffer from a chronic mental illness and who demonstrate significant impairment of task performance and/or social performance. 2. A comprehensive network of services should be developed including provision for basic need with a range of housing options, inpatient and outpatient psychiatric evaluations and treatment, personal clinical support, living-skills training and vocational assessment and training. Aside from patient needs, the professional status of the caregivers involved is to be enhanced. Laudable efforts by self-help groups should be further encouraged. 3. Community resources should be enlisted following principles and practices identified as basic to successful programs already existing, for example: -- provision of economic stability -- presence of administrative leadership -- striving for continuity of care -- allowance for adequate manpower -- establishment of vocational supports -- respect for patients' rights -- provision of community education -- design of ongoing evaluation and research 4. A greater emphasis should be placed in undergraduate and postgraduate medical and psychiatric training programs on the treatment of the chronically ill. 5. The Canadian Council on Hospital Accreditation should continue to elaborate and publish criteria by which services to the chronically mentally ill would be evaluated both at the inpatient and outpatient levels. These criteria when available should be promoted in all relevant institutions.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Nov
pubmed:issn
0706-7437
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
26
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
494-501
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-8-1
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1981
pubmed:articleTitle
The chronic mental patient: the position of th Canadian Psychiatric Association.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article