Workshop on Social Work Research and Community-Based Mental Health Services. Held in Rockville, Maryland on November 1-2, 1989

摘要

The profession of social work plays an important role in both the provision of community-based mental health services and in research related to such services. The National Institute of Mental Health, Division of Biometry and Applied Sciences (Biometric and Clinical Applications Branch) sponsored a workshop in Rockville, Maryland on November 1-2, 1989 for the purpose of: (1) reviewing the state-of-the-art in social work research on community-based mental health services, with particular reference to mental health services research, and (2) identifying future research needs. The workshop brought together leading social work researchers who presented technical papers on social work research in mental health services in such areas as research trends in community care, case management, children and youth services, the use of expert systems, organizational theory in mental health research, social work effectiveness, economic burden of families caring for the mentally ill, the homeless mentally ill, rural mental health services, minority populations and mental health research, and use of Federal data systems for social work research.