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Community mental health is a movement arising in the 1950's which viewed mental health problems as emerging from failures in the social system. This movement called for community control of mental health services and strong focuses on prevention, early detection, and the provision of services to populations who had traditionally been underserved.

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- Community mental health center : Community mental health center refers to a facility which offers a wide range of mental health services, such as prevention, counseling, consultation, and crisis intervention.

- Community mental health center: - Community mental health center (CMHC) : Community mental health center (CMHC) refers to outpatient clinic that provides psychological services on a sliding fee scale to serve individuals who live within a certain geographic area.

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Community mental-health centers are clinics which provide mental-health care based in the community through teams of social workers, therapists, and physicians who coordinate care

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Community mental-health movement refers to the movement launched in 1963 that attempted to provide coordinated mental-health services to people in community-based treatment centers.

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Community policing is a term used in Forensic psychology that refers to a strategy that relies on public confidence and citizen cooperation to help prevent crime and make the residents of a community feel more secure.

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A Community psychologist refers to a kind of psychologists who seek to assess, understand, modify, and prevent Behavior disorders.

Community psychology is a branch of Psychology that focuses on the individual as part of the social settings and systems they belong to.

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