Glossary of Terms Commonly Used in Mental Health
This glossary provides definitions of many commonly used mental health terms and includes links to more information on many of the entries. Just choose a letter from the menu below to reach the page with the term you'd like to find.
V
Vertical disintegration
A practice of selling off health plan subsidiaries or provider activities. Vertical disintegration was a trend in the late 1990s.
Vocational Rehabilitation Services
Services that include job finding/development, assessment and enhancement of work-related skills, attitudes, and behaviors as well as provision of job experience to clients/patients. Includes transitional employment.
This glossary incorporates many of the entries provided in a mental health dictionary supplied by the US government's Department of Health and Human Services.
This page was last reviewed by Dr Greg Mulhauser, Thursday, 20 August 2009.
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http://counsellingresource.com/types/glossary/v.html
