Case management (mental health)

This article is about the mental health approach. For other uses, see Case management.

Case management is the coordination of community-based services by a professional or team to provide quality mental health care customized accordingly to individual patients' setbacks or persistent challenges and aid them to their recovery.[1][2] Case management seeks to reduce hospitalizations and support individuals' recovery through an approach that considers each person's overall biopsychosocial needs without making disadvantageous economic costs. As a result, care coordination includes traditional mental health services but may also encompass primary healthcare, housing, transportation, employment, social relationships, and community participation. In the 1940s, this was known as social counseling.[3] It is the link between the client and care delivery system.[2]

  1. ^ Onyett, Steve (1998) [1992]. Case management in mental health (reprint ed.). Cheltenham, UK: Stanley Thornes. p. 3. ISBN 978-0-7487-3845-8.
  2. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference CommunityPsychiatry2010 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Strode, Josephine; R. Strode, Pauline (1942). Social Skills in Case Work (First ed.). New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers. pp. 153–167.