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In their efforts to transform local mental health systems under the 2004 Mental Health Services Act, California counties consistently articulated the broad principles of a recovery orientation in their designs of programs for consumers and their families, according to a study by the Nicholas C. Petris Center on Health Care Markets and Consumer Welfare at the University of California, Berkeley.

However, there was little convergence on specific strategies to achieve this vision, reflecting the local planning process, which gave counties the flexibility chose methods that met the needs of their diverse communities, concluded the study, published in the October issue of Psychiatric Services.

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