[Community specialized social help services for patients with mental disorders: one year experience]

This article describes one year's experiences of Foundation of Supporting Psychiatric Department Medical Academy of Warsaw in care of patients with mental disorders in two districts of Warsaw. The service was provided for open group of about 70-80 patients with the diagnosis of schizophrenia and depressive disorder recurrent. Introducing of this type of care resulted in reducing of the number of patient admitted to the hospital and in shortening of the mean hospitalization time. Moreover, last but not least, improved patient's life quality. The article contains also care reports illustrations successes and defeats in this type of care.