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Social service agencies need the knowledge that can be gained through research, and universities are equipped to conduct research. It seems like a natural partnership. Yet, university research conducted in agencies often fails to satisfy the interests of either party. In seeking successful frameworks for meaningful applied research in community settings, universities and agencies must form an intentional relationship that integrates the capacities of the differently oriented partners. This article describes a partnership framework in which both community agency staff and university researchers discarded the usual disunified approach to addressing service questions and committed to an embedded, interactive, investigative model in which all participants merged their specific skills to gain mutually fulfilling outcomes.

AbstractFamilies can be a resource for the long‐term management of schizophrenia if they are given support and information. Before sacrificing these families on the altar of "expedient separation," it would seem ethically if not scientifically imperative to maintain and support this primary resource for patients.

Mental Health Case Management: A Practical Guide represents the first modern guide designed to provide students and practitioners with a grounded and practical tutorial on the key functions of a case manager serving adults with severe mental illness. The guide is purposely devoid of extensive theoretical and historical discourse, and rather focuses on a direct and to-the-point approach that time-pressed readers will appreciate when learning the fundamentals of providing mental health case management