1 and Persistent (original) (raw)

2007

Abstract

Individuals treated in public sector community mental health centers often have chronic or recurrent illnesses and diffi culties in housing, employment and social activities that compound one another. Understanding that this complex of clinical symptoms and functional compromise constitute the illnesses we treat, researchers at the Connecticut Mental Health Center (CMHC) described the variability in long-term course and experience of patients as they lived with their illnesses, engaged patients in their own treatment and that of others, and documented scientifi cally the value of an integrated network of clinical and community services. As part of an academic department of psychiatry, the CMHC has provided opportunities for translational research that brings basic neuroscience to bear on community care, and for training researchers and clinicians able to address the complexity of the illnesses and humanity of the patients. Most people treated in public sector community mental health...

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