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Needs assessment of the mentally ill

Hynek Kalvodavá, Pavla Šelepová


Abstract:
The aim of the paper was to present the concept of „need“ in connection with assessment of quality of life and needs of the psychiatric patients. The research of need approach was stressed in context with mental health services and care development. We described traditional „objective“ assessment of needs from professionals’ perspective and introduced several research tools based on a subjective evaluation of needs in this paper. One of them, the Camberwell Assessment of Need (CAN), was described in detail in this work.



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