COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH (black and white, 32 minutes) Produced for the Mental Health Film Board. Sponsored by the State Mental Health Authorities of California, Connecticut, Massachusetts, pennsylvania, and Texas. Available from some State Mental Health Authority film libraries, or may be purchased from International Film Bureau, 57 East Jackson Blvd., Chicago 4, Illinois

1960 ◽  
Vol 11 (8) ◽  
pp. 47-48
Author(s):  
Jack Neher
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Community Mental Health ◽  
Health Authority ◽  
State Mental Health ◽  
The State ◽  
Black And White ◽  
Health Authorities ◽  
State Mental Health Authority ◽  
State Mental

scholarly journals Divided we fall: clinicians and academic psychiatrists need to stand together

2017 ◽  
Vol 25 (5) ◽  
pp. 437-439
Author(s):  
Stephen Allison ◽  
Tarun Bastiampillai ◽  
Malcolm Battersby
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Services ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Health System ◽  
Mental Health System ◽  
State Mental Health ◽  
The State ◽  
Services Research ◽  
Academic Units ◽  
State Mental

Objective: Psychiatry faces urgent problems requiring united action. These problems affect academic psychiatrists in the universities, and clinicians in publicly funded mental health services. Academic units are isolated and endangered, finding it difficult to recruit. They could benefit from closer relationships with public mental health services, in terms of recruitment, shared teaching and clinical research. However, mental health services are preoccupied with their own problems, particularly in relation to acute clinical demand. How can we stand together to improve academic units and clinical psychiatry? Conclusions: Clinicians and academic psychiatrists can stand together on important matters, but it takes initiatives from local leaders to overcome the structural barriers between health services and the universities. An example is given of united action by clinicians and academic psychiatrists to address a crisis within a state mental health system. First, psychiatrists undertook independent health services research that compared the state system with those in other Australian and international jurisdictions. The comparative data was used to generate solutions, which were presented at every level from ministerial offices through to service managers. Finally, psychiatrists took up joint academic and clinical leadership roles in the university and the mental health system. This united research-led approach turned around the crisis in the state mental health system.

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