Case management has been embraced by numerous human services systems in recent years because it holds great promise for bridging gaps in services, preventing fragmentation and duplication, and promoting continuity of care. In the long run, case manage...
Case management has been embraced by numerous human services systems in recent years because it holds great promise for bridging gaps in services, preventing fragmentation and duplication, and promoting continuity of care. In the long run, case management is also expected to contributes the mental patients to return to the community.
In order to provide an effective service for the mental patients, it is necessary for mental health social workers to apply case management providing comprehensive services linked and coordinated with community resources. In this study case management is defined as an integrated or coordinated practice system of direct services and indirect services for the mental patients who have various psychiatric and social needs.
Under this context, the purpose of this study is to identify the utilization of community resources to be performed through mental health social workers' case management practice and also to propose the task and plan for improvement of resource mobilization for rehabilitation of the discharged mental patients in fuctional and structual aspects.
The effective strategies for utilizing mental health resources may be as follows:
1) The degree of performance of resource utilization by case manager is needed to expend to the level of formal and regular-based activity. 2) along with accommodating in time and effort expended in supporting resource mobilization, information-networking and PR sources are required. 3) continuous supervision or education is required for the case manager for improving professional skills related with assessing and connecting resources.