City of Gheel: Community Mental Health in Action
Author: Ronald J. Comer
Princeton University
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This video focuses on the community of Gheel, Belgium, in which over 650 psychiatric patients live with and are cared for by local families. The video shows the progress of the patients and, as you watch, you will note that many patients require lower levels of medication as a result of participation in family-care. As you watch the video, consider how the family-care system impacts the rest of the community.
1. The success of the foster care programs in Gheel strongly support the principles of each of the following models, except:
2. According to the video. case, a key factor in the success of the Gheel foster care model is ______________.
3. The foster care programs in Gheel ______________.
4. According to the textbook, a key feature of community mental health approaches is prevention. Each of the following is a type of prevention, except:
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