Annual plan ... of the Illinois Department of Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities.

Title varies slightly.

Community mental health act (HB 708 - as amended) 1969.

Mode of access: Internet.

Mental health in Illinois.

"A bi-monthly publication of the Illinois Department of Mental Health."

Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Administrative Act (20 ILCS 1705).

"Includes amendments/additions effective through ..., including selected sections of the Civil Administrative Code."

Mental health and developmental disabilities in Illinois : an examination /

Includes bibliographical references.

Report of the Governor's Task Force on the Future of Mental Health in Illinois.

"January 15, 1987."

Report to Governor James R. Thompson on the future of the mental health and developmentally disabled service system in Illinois ... /

"September 16, 1983."

The Community Mental Health Medicaid Trust Fund : background, analyses and recommendations.

"December 2005."

The Illinois state plans, fiscal year ... for the construction of facilities for the mentally retarded (Title I-C) and community mental health centers (Title II) Public Law 88-164.

Title varies slightly.

Volunteer service manual for commumity mental health facilities /

Cover title.

A working manual of third party funding sources for community mental health centers /

Originally issued 1978.

A nationwide survey of mental health and correctional institutions for adult mentally disordered offenders

Mode of access: Internet.

Mental health : culture, race, and ethnicity : executive summary : a supplement to Mental health : a report of the Surgeon General.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 21).

Supervision practices in allied mental health: Relationships of supervision characteristics to perceived impact and job satisfaction

This study examined whether supervision characteristics impacted on mental health practice and morale, and developed a new Supervision Attitude Scale (SAS). Telephone surveys were conducted with a representative sample of 272 staff from public mental health services across Queensland. Although supervision was widely received and positively rated, it had low average intensity, and assessment and training of skills was rarely incorporated. Perceived impact on practice was associated with acquisition of skills and positive attitudes to supervisors, but extent of supervision was related to impact only if it was from within the profession. Intention to resign was unrelated to extent of supervision, but was associated with positive attitudes to supervisors, accessibility, high impact, and empathy or praise in supervision sessions. The SAS had high internal consistency, and its intercorrelations were consistent with it being a measure of relationship positivity. The study supported the role of supervision in retention and in improving practice. It also highlighted supervision characteristics that might be targeted in training, and provided preliminary data on a new measure.

Actual and preferred work activites of mental health Occupational Therapists: Congruence or Discrepancy

The reform of Australian mental health services has resulted in new models of care and changed work practices for all mental health professionals. Occupational therapists today are as likely to be working in multidisciplinary teams performing a range of generic clinical roles as they are to be working in specialist rehabilitation units. These kinds of changes have taken place in other countries, with anecdotal and some empirical evidence that the changes have resulted in concerns about loss of professional identity and roles. This study sought to identify the current work activities carried out by occupational therapists and to determine whether there was a discrepancy between their actual and desired work activities. It was expected that, overall, they would indicate a preference to do more specialist rehabilitation focused work and less generic case management work. A survey of 196 occupational therapists investigated their actual and preferred work activities in 55 specific roles across four broad categories (senior administration, specialist clinical, general clinical and community development). As expected, the participants indicated that they would prefer to be undertaking more specialist rehabilitation oriented work activities than they were actually doing. Contrary to expectations, they also wished to undertake more rather than less generic clinical work activities, to be more engaged in community development work and to take on more senior and administrative roles. They indicated a preference for less rather than more activity on only 5 of the 55 work roles examined. On examining a subset of 113 participants who reported that 50% or more of their time was spent in case management, there was greater evidence of resistance to generic clinical roles. It was therefore concluded that occupational therapists in Australia are seeking to deploy their specialist skills to a greater degree than the current practice environment permits. They have broadly accepted the generic roles required in multidisciplinary community case management, but those who are actually working in these roles are most likely to have reservations about this kind of work.