Factors Influencing the Rate of First Admission to Mental Hospital

The telephone counseling center as a community mental health assessment tool

“…However, the usual approaches to assessing community mental health needs have been to collect data at state hospitals regarding admissions from the target community (e.g., Goldhammer & Marshall, 1953;Wanklin, Fleming, Buck, & Hobbs, 1955;Kaplan, Reed, & Richardson, 1956); to go through statistical records at the community mental health clinic (e.g., Hollingshead & Redlich, 1953); to use interview or personality testing techniques on large numbers of individuals in the community who were chosen on the basis of the demographic characteristics of the community (e.g., Lapouse & Monk, 1958;Lapouse & Monk, 1959); and a variety of other conventional methods. Unfortunately, these approaches generally consider mental illness as an individual problem to be treated at the individual level.…”