Managed care fundamentally transformed traditional relationships between clients and workers in mental health settings.

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Managed care introduced new restrictions on both the type and length of services that mental health workers could provide to clients, leading to a shift away from traditional long-term therapeutic relationships. Clients became seen as consumers and mental health services as a commodity, fundamentally changing the nature of the relationship between the two.

Managed Care Fundamentally Transformed Traditional Relationships Between Clients and Workers