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This study interviewed 364 members of four local countywide stakeholder groups (service provider agency directors, case managers, clients, and family members of clients) in a northwest state to ascertain their extent of agreement or disagreement about the importance of services. The groups agree that basic assistance and living skills are most important and that helping clients set their own goals and obtaining support from community organizations are least important. A social system stakeholder model proposes that the agreement and disagreement of different stakeholder groups are related to their values and position in the service delivery system.
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This research was supported by the National Institute of Mental Health (MH-38887 and MH-14583; O. Grusky, PI and Program Director).
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Grusky, O., Tierney, K. & Spanish, M.T. Which community mental health services are most important?. Adm Policy Ment Health 17, 3–16 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00710743
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