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MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES IN LEXINGTON <br />1. PURPOSES <br /> The Human Services Committee study of professional mental health service providers <br />began to take shape in 2001, when representatives of the Middlesex branch of the National <br />Alliance for the Mentally Ill met with the committee to present their current needs and <br />concerns. We decided to conduct a study of the services available in Lexington for citizens, <br />including children and youth, of the town. <br /> Our primary purpose was to inform ourselves and the Board of Selectman about the <br />nature, extent, and levels of activity of all types of mental health services by Lexington <br />agencies and solo practitioners. We sought to identify and describe the availability and <br />provision of psychotherapeutic, sociotherapeutic, counseling, and medical services to clients <br />suffering from psychoses, psychoneuroses, related cognitive or emotional distress, and <br />difficulties associated with alcoholism, substance abuse, and the like. Our aim was to <br />gather, interpret, and report on evidence of unmet needs. We believed that subgroups who <br />were found to be under-served should be identified and that the Board of Selectman would <br />entertain ways of strengthening the scope and quality of future services. <br /> <br />