Abstract
the importance of psychiatric clinics in the total range of psychiatric service. The Joint Commission On Mental Illness and Health recognized the central importance of clinics by the following recommendation: Community mental health clinics serving both children and adults, operated as outpatient departments of general or mental hospitals, as part of state or regional systems for mental patient care, or as independent agencies, are a main line of defense in reducing the need of many persons with major mental illness for prolonged or repeated hospitalization. Therefore, a national mental health program should set as an objective one fully staffed, full-time mental health clinic available to each 50,000 of population. Greater efforts should be made to induce more psychiatrists in private practice to devote a substantial part of their working hours to community clinic services, both as consultants and
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