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The Measurement of the Quality of Care in Psychiatric Rehabilitation Settings: Development of the Model Standards Questionnaires

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 June 2009

A. Lavender
A. Lavender
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Maidstone Psychology Department, Kent
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Abstract

The need to monitor the standards of care provided in settings for the long term psychiatrically disabled has become increasingly recognized. A critical review of the literature indicated that no comprehensive assessment procedure existed for settings providing some form of rehabilitation. However, five important aspects of care in each setting were identified: (i) Treatment Practices, (ii) Unit Management Practices, (iii) Community Contact Practices, (iv) The Physical Environment and (v) Staffing Resources.

A series of questionnaires was devised—The Model Standards Questionnaires—to assess each of these aspects of care. The questionnaires can be used to provide a profile of particular settings quality of rehabilitation and as a means of identifying how the quality of that rehabilitation might be improved.

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Research Article
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Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy , Volume 15 , Issue 3 , July 1987 , pp. 201 - 214
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Copyright © British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies 1987

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