The center was included in the report for the first time, according to Department of Public Health Secretary Joseph Kevin Villagomez.
The report was funded by the center and the Bureau of Environmental Health.
Headed by Josephine T. Sablan, the center reported the number of diagnoses in 2006 and 2007.
However, the figures do not necessarily reflect the number of clients since there could have been multiple diagnoses for one client.
The data showed that the number of diagnoses in most classifications in 2007 was lower by almost 50 percent compared to 2006.
The center had 187 diagnoses of substance-related disorder in 2007 compared to 230 in 2006.
From 207 in 2006, the number of findings on mood disorders went down to 130 last year.
The number of diagnoses on disorders involving infancy, childhood or adolescence, like autism, also went down from 95 to 64.
Diagnoses on anxiety disorders totaled 54 last year, compared to 94 in 2006.
For schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders, the number went down from 58 to 55; adjustment disorders, from 33 to 24; impulse-control disorders, from 33 to 31; dissociative disorders, from 11 to 5; and delirium, dementia, amnestic and other cognitive disorders. From 10 to 6.
The data also showed a drop in the number of the clients referred to the center — from 733 in 2006 to 530 last year.
The number of individuals who came by themselves to seek the center’s help fell from 154 in 2006 to 95 last year.
The number of individuals referred by the Adult Parole and Probation Office went down from 180 in 2006 to 149 in 2007, while those referred by family court also went down from 22 to 15.
Most of those who sought the center’s services were from 21 to 64 years old, and most were males.
