Mental Health Care in a Fleet Mental Health Support Unit

摘要

The present study sought to describe the patient population and service delivery at a single small Navy outpatient mental health clinic by collecting data directly from patient/clinician encounters. The total sample included 240 Navy officers and enlisted personnel and 6 Marine Corps service members seen during a 9-month period. Major findings were that most patients were referred from the base dispensary's sick call, that services provided consisted almost exclusively of evaluation and individual psychotherapy, and that a large proportion of patients seen (56.3%) received no psychiatric diagnosis. Further, the problems presented by patients seen reflected difficulties in terms of their implications for the delivery of outpatient mental health services in the Navy. (Author)