Project report (D. Min.)--New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, 1998. / Abstract and vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 124-147).

This study makes a definitive survey of the social services made available to mental patients at the Crease Clinic of Psychological Medicine during the year of 1953. The purpose of the survey was to describe as clearly as possible the actual social services provided by social caseworkers to patients undergoing short-term treatment at a mental hospital. In order to analyze the nature of typical social casework help, it was necessary to define the specific components making up services to the mentally ill and their families. Since there is apparently no available standard, a special classification of services was devised for the present study. This was achieved by visualizing the social needs of the patient and his family as he moves through his period of hospitalization, from admission to discharge. A questionnaire listing these services was prepared, and was answered by the patients’ social workers. The patients studied were by people selected by a routine sampling procedure. An examination of the casework help to the patients revealed that 25 out of 64, and 29 of their families, received help through face-to-face interviews with the social worker. All the patients were helped through diagnostic planning at ward rounds, and 44 were further assisted through a therapeutic use of social resources by the social worker. The specific services to the patients and the specific services to the relatives were shown to be similar in frequency. In both instances most of the services were aimed at helping people with their discomforts in social relationships. In conclusion, the study points out some of the problems in the screening of patients for social casework help, including the difficulty of giving effective service with insufficient staff. Also emphasized is the necessity for social agencies to facilitate research through standardization of recording, because of the need for further development in quantitative and analytical evaluation of services which are not clearly understood by the general public, and even by some professional people. / Arts, Faculty of / Social Work, School of / Graduate

This thesis applied the decision support mechanism, Q-Methodology, to an integrated model of issues management and strategic planning. This approach was applied at Riverview Hospital in Noblesville, Indiana in order to respond to the health care reform issue.The research approach involved the three primary stakeholder groups of the hospital: Board of Directors, physicians and managers. The three groups, representing 56 people, attended a planning retreat and identified Riverview's planning options in the form of 77 statements representing future program or service options. These 77 statements were then ranked using Q-methodology.The findings of the study included a QMETHOD computer and researcher analysis of the statements from the perspective of the total group and also the three factors.The final result was a list of statements that comprised Riverview's response to the reform issue in the form of corporate goals and objectives. The conclusions of the study show that:--The integrated approach did provide focus to the strategic planning process. The final list of objectives were all related to the health reform proposal.--Q-Methodology was an appropriate decision support mechanism. It not only provided the final list of corporate objectives but clearly identified potential support and resistance.--A viable set of corporate objectives was developed to respond to the health reform proposal.--All of the stakeholder groups unanimously approved the final list of statements (objectives) in a formal voting process. / Department of Journalism

Thesis (D. Min.)--Western Theological Seminary, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 158-160).

Thesis (D. Min.)--Western Theological Seminary, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 158-160).

The dissertation discusses the provision of mental health care delivery by the Government of British Columbia, and the role and focus of Riverview Hospital in a changing organizational environment. The developing policy of regional and community service necessitates reorganization of the hospital's programs, in order to integrate and coordinate the components of the system. The question of the optimal organization for delivery of service in Riverview is examined through a discussion of the theoretical background for the provision of care to the mentally disordered, the development of mental health services in the province, and the alternatives and externalities which impinge on the provision and operation of the hospital's services. The intra-hospital planning, designed to effect an organizational response to environmental pressures, is outlined. / Medicine, Faculty of / Population and Public Health (SPPH), School of / Graduate

Thesis (D. Min.)--Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Deerfield, Ill., 1999. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 226-227).

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