Stern M S
Psychiatr Q. 1977 Spring;49(1):62-71. doi: 10.1007/BF01071459.
To test whether the preference for middle and upper class clients, found in psychotherapeutic clinics during the 1950s and early 1960s, exists in mental health centers, the relationships between social class and various aspects of psychiatric treatment are investigated in forty mental health centers which vary in several organizational dimensions. In general, clients are given treatment with little or no regard to social class. The variables that account for the different patterns of treatment in the two types of psychiatric treatment organizations are (1) the composition of the staffs; (2) the types and amount of individual psychotherapy given; and (3) the primary organizational goal.
为了检验20世纪50年代和60年代初在心理治疗诊所发现的对中上层阶级客户的偏好是否存在于心理健康中心，我们在40个心理健康中心对社会阶层与精神病治疗各个方面之间的关系进行了调查，这些中心在几个组织维度上存在差异。总体而言，在给予客户治疗时很少或根本不考虑社会阶层。导致这两种类型的精神病治疗组织出现不同治疗模式的变量有：（1）工作人员的构成；（2）提供的个体心理治疗的类型和数量；（3）主要组织目标。
