The Community Supports and Skills Checklist, used as a routine assessment device on a short-stay inpatient unit, is described and preliminary data reported. The checklist forms one basis for making a functional assessment of chronic psychiatric patients and for deciding on which cognitive-behavioral rehabilitation approaches to undertake.
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