Psychiatr Serv. 1996 Jul;47(7):760-1.

A survey of preferred terms for users of mental health services.

Mueser KT, Glynn SM, Corrigan PW, Baber W.

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Department of psychiatry, Dartmouth Medical School in Hanover, New Hampshire, USA.

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To determine how users of mental health services would like to be addressed by professionals, a survey of 302 persons participating in a variety of inpatient and outpatient psychiatric programs was conducted. Forty-five percent of the sample preferred the term "client," 20 percent preferred the term "patient," 8 percent preferred the term "consumer," and 27 percent either expressed no clear preference for one term or provided another term. The results suggest that no one term is favored by users of mental health services. Professionals and persons receiving mental health services are encouraged to talk over individual preferences to help establish a working alliance.

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