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patients with schizophrenia, one must keep in mind the many diver-
sities in this vast land, including the great differences in cultural
beliefs and mental health service provisions between rural and
urban China, and the social norms and values that are undergoing
rapid changes (Phillips and Pearson, 1994a, 1994b).
Treatment goals As Xiong et al. (1994: 240) stated, the ultimate goal
of these families is to develop a sustainable family-based support
system for the dysfunctional individual. To this end, parents often
seek stable employment, a spouse and offspring for their ill child.
While clinicians attempt to match families goals, they also need to
caution them about their possible consequences. For example,
marriage and child-rearing may not help to secure present and
future care for the patient, but may cause more stress to the patient
instead. A viable mutually acceptable treatment goal is to ensure that
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Acknowledgements
Part of this article was presented at the Conference on the Develop-
ment of Social Work in China in Beijing, June 2000. The author
would like to express her appreciation to Dr Kyu-Taik Sung for
his input to an earlier version of this manuscript.
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