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Published Online:https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.4S.20

The nation's investment in community mental health requires not only that significant numbers of specialists be trained but also that all mental health professionals acquire some basic skills in the theory and method of this field. The authors describe the community mental health training program at Langley Porter, which began in 1960. They believe that this kind of training should be a required rather than an elective assignment in the training of psychiatric residents.

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