A comparison of satisfaction with clinician, family members/friends and attorneys as payees

Clients disabled by psychiatric illness may be assigned mental health clinicians as payees. We compared client-payee interactions among 42 clients with clinician-payees, 20 whose payees were family or friends and nine with attorney-payees. Compared to clients with attorney-payees, clients with clini...

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Published in:Community mental health journal 2005-06, Vol.41 (3), p.291-306
Main Authors: ROSEN, Marc I, BAILEY, Margaret, DOMBROWSKI, Elizabeth, ABLONDI, Karen, ROSENHECK, Robert A
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Attorneys
Biological and medical sciences
Case Management
Community treatment. Ambulatory treatment. Home care
Comparative studies
Connecticut
Counselor client relationships
Data Collection
Diagnosis, Dual (Psychiatry)
Disabled Persons - psychology
Family - psychology
Female
Health facilities
Health services
Humans
Lawyers
Male
Medical sciences
Mental disorders
Mental health
Mental health care
Mentally ill people
Middle Aged
Patient Satisfaction
Physicians
Polls & surveys
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Reimbursement Mechanisms
Representative payee programmes
Social security
Treatments
Variance analysis
Veterans
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Summary:Clients disabled by psychiatric illness may be assigned mental health clinicians as payees. We compared client-payee interactions among 42 clients with clinician-payees, 20 whose payees were family or friends and nine with attorney-payees. Compared to clients with attorney-payees, clients with clinician-payees felt more satisfied and more involved in their money management, and had had more contacts with their payees in the previous month. Clients' satisfaction with family/friend payees was similar to that with clinician payees. In multivariate analyses, whether or not the payee had had training about mental illness accounted for 33% of the variance in satisfaction with the payee.
ISSN:0010-3853
1573-2789
DOI:10.1007/s10597-005-5003-0