INTERNATIONAL CONSORTIUM for MENTAL HEALTH POLICY and SERVICES
MENTAL HEALTH POLICY TEMPLATE

Personal Mental Health Services

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POLICY TEMPLATE WITH EXPLANATIONS

PROVISION

PERSONAL MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES
PROMOTION
DIAGNOSIS
PREVENTATIVE
THERAPEUTIC
REHABILITATIVE

Personal mental health services are those "Services that are consumed directly by an individual, whether they are promotional, preventative, diagnostic, therapeutic or rehabilitative, and whether they generate externalities or not."(142) These services include assessment, crisis intervention, acute inpatient services, specific psychological and social interventions, community outpatient clinics, mobile treatment teams, domiciliary services and living skills programmes, rehabilitation and vocational services. (143)