Abstract
The distinctive feature of a community mental health program is the comprehensive responsibility assumed for the mental health as well as the psychiatric needs of a particular area. Not only must programs provide psychiatric services but, in addition, they are concerned with assessing the community's psychiatric and mental health status; with preventive services; with mental health education; with contributions directed toward the solution of certain social problems; as well as with a variety of other indirect services, including, importantly, mental health consultation. This form of consultation can support and help the large number of community care-takers whose contribution is vital to the promotion of community mental health.
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