A programme for the establishment and functioning of a community mental health service in the area of Beit Shemesh and the Jerusalem Corridor, Israel.
The area of Beit Shemesh, situated in the Jerusalem Corridor has a socioeconomic structure of the pluralistic type characteristic of modern Israel. It includes a small but quickly growing industrial city, several cooperative (moshav) and communal (kibbutz) agricultural settlements, and has a population of colourful ethnic heterogenity. The main effort in the community mental health program which was established and developed in this area was made on the levels of primary and secondary psychiatric prevention. The psychiatric community work was accomplished with a highly flexible approach and an abundance of tactics and techniques, examples of which are presented in this article.
D000069:Acculturation; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D003156:Community Mental Health Services; D005006:Ethnicity; D005196:Family Therapy; D005260:Female; D006266:Health Education; D006801:Humans; D007557:Israel; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000517:prevention & control; D012017:Referral and Consultation; D012572:School Health Services; D012917:Social Adjustment; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors