Am J Psychiatry 1979; 136:1040-1044
Copyright © 1979 by American Psychiatric Association
Administrative relationships between community mental health centers and academic psychiatry departments
LR Faulkner and JS Eaton Jr
The authors reviewed the administrative relationships between academic
departments of psychiatry and community mental health centers (CMHCs). By
telephone, they surveyed the chairpersons of 110 departments of psychiatry
with approved psychiatric residency programs and found that 87 (79%) had
some type of administrative relationship with a comprehensive CMHC. Almost
two-thirds of the chairpersons of these departments considered the CMHC to
be of major importance to their educational programs. Only 8 (7%) of the
110 departments had discontinued their relationship with a CMHC. Most of
the chairpersons whose departments were involved with a center were
optimistic about the future of their programs in CMHCs.
