Community Mental Health Centers as Human Service Organizations
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What is attempted in this article is to present an organizational perspective on community mental health centers (CMHCs) that could provide a clearer understanding of the structures and processes observed in them. The perspective is derived from a broader application of organizational theory to human service organizations. It is based on the assumption that human service organizations are a distinct set of bureaucracies
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تاریخ انتشار 2006