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Professional attitudes toward the chronic mentally ill.

Mental health professionals have . generally viewed treating chronic mental patients as an unrewarding, frustrating experience that offers little hope for a positive outcome (1). The stresses of working with this population have intensified recently as professionals increasingly encounter the new type of young, aggressive, and noncompliant patient emerging since deinstitutionalization. The burden of caring for chronic patients has fallen on the public sector, and specialized training for professionals treating them has been neglected (2,3). To ascertain the attitudes of mental health professionals toward chronic patients, we conducted a survey of professionals attending a symposium sponsored by the Texas Research Institute of Mental Sciences (TRIMS), the research and training arm of the Texas Dcpartment of Mental Health and Mental Retardation. The symposium was held in Houston in 1982. Seventy-six percent of the attendees were employees of the