A Psychiatric Mobile Crisis Unit in New York City: Description and Assessment, with Implications for Mental Health Care in the 1990S

Thomas L. Chiu and Chuck Primeau
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Thomas L. Chiu: Psychiatry Department, Gouverneur Hospital 227 Madison Street, New York, NY 10002
Chuck Primeau: Psychiatry Department, Gouverneur Hospital 227 Madison Street, New York, NY 10002

International Journal of Social Psychiatry, 1991, vol. 37, issue 4, 251-258

Abstract: This article presents a review and assessment of a community Mobile Crisis Intervention Team working on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Of special importance, a trend is noted invoiving a changing philosophy and modus operandi. Some reasons are offered to explain the trend and questions are raised about the future of the delivery of mental health services in large urban areas.

Date: 1991
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DOI: 10.1177/002076409103700404

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