title: The assessment of systems in promoting collaborative aftercare: religious and mental health organizations in partnership.
abstract: Maps out the terrain in which mental health and religious organizations collaborate in meeting community life needs of the long term mentally ill. Offers, from a systems theory perspective, four principles to be followed in planning and details six steps in developing a collaboration project between a free-standing private non-profit community mental health center and a suburban Roman Catholic parish.
mesh_terms: D000359:Aftercare / Q000458:organization & administration*; D003155:Community Mental Health Centers / Q000458:organization & administration*; D003237:Connecticut; D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D010327:Pastoral Care; D013598:Systems Theory