Roles for Paraprofessionals in Psychiatric Home Care

摘要: This chapter explores the rationale for paraprofessional participation in psychiatric home care, identifies competencies needed by such providers, offers examples of value paraprofessionals currently working home-care settings, and suggests implications training service delivery. The new models care address functional deficits resulting from illnesses, rather than focusing on symptom reduction alone. Attention both to costs serving individuals with long-term illnesses community settings types services involved this argue favor increased use as members teams. In order ensure effective performance, health must be selected carefully, trained well, given responsibility direction meeting clients' needs. programs described chapter, although not explicitly tailored train demonstrate that it is possible provide a reasonable investment time funds. Paraprofessionals have proved cost-efficient clinical case management teams other outreach