caa a22 4500 386354170 CHVBK 20180307111845.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198902 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0033291700011144 doi S0033291700011144 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0033291700011144 Psychiatric morbidity in the clients of social workers: clinical outcome [Elektronische Daten] Out of 141 new referrals to a Social Services Department 101 were assessed at inception and twelve-month follow-up using the Present State Examination (PSE), the Social Maladjustment Schedule (SMS) and the Case Review Form (CRF). Mental illness, financial and housing problems were the three problems most frequently identified by the social workers. At inception 72 (51%) of the subjects were PSE cases (ID > 5) and 25% at follow-up. The type of social work help offered to cases and non-cases did not differ. Social and clinical data collected at inception and follow-up were used to classify (using discriminant function analysis) caseness at inception and follow-up and clinical change. Caseness at inception (82% of subjects were correctly classified) was associated with depression, subjective social problems and poverty. Caseness at follow-up (74% correctly classified) was associated with poor coping abilities at inception and clinical features of depression. Clinical change (worsening) (71% correctly classified) was associated with seeing a Community Psychiatric Nurse and poor coping abilities at inception. The ability to classify correctly cases and change was enhanced when additional data from follow-up interviews were used. In the PSE cases, only clinical worsening was correctly classified by a high GHQ score at inception, age and poor coping abilities. The last result is similar to that obtained in general practice by Mann et al. (1981). Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989 Huxley Peter Mental Health Social Work Research Unit, Department of Psychiatry, University of Manchester Raval Hitesh Mental Health Social Work Research Unit, Department of Psychiatry, University of Manchester Korer Jacky Mental Health Social Work Research Unit, Department of Psychiatry, University of Manchester Jacob Caroline Mental Health Social Work Research Unit, Department of Psychiatry, University of Manchester Psychological Medicine Cambridge University Press 19/1(1989-02), 189-197 0033-2917 19:1<189 1989 19 PSM https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033291700011144 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033291700011144 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Huxley Peter Mental Health Social Work Research Unit, Department of Psychiatry, University of Manchester NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Raval Hitesh Mental Health Social Work Research Unit, Department of Psychiatry, University of Manchester NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Korer Jacky Mental Health Social Work Research Unit, Department of Psychiatry, University of Manchester NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Jacob Caroline Mental Health Social Work Research Unit, Department of Psychiatry, University of Manchester NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Psychological Medicine Cambridge University Press 19/1(1989-02), 189-197 0033-2917 19:1<189 1989 19 PSM CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge