Abstract In 1963, President John F. Kennedy signed the Mental Retardation and Community
Mental Health Centers Construction Act, establishing the beginnings of deinstitutionalization …

The distinguished historian of medicine Gerald Grob analyzes the post-World War II policy
shift that moved many severely mentally ill patients from large state hospitals to nursing …

Prologue: Two decades ago, the enactment of the Mental Retardation Facilities and
Community Mental Health Centers Construction Act signaled the federal entry into the …

Among the milestones in the care and treatment of chronically and severely mentally ill
persons in the second half of the twentieth century, deinstitutionalization (the mass exodus …

Over the last 30 years, California dejure (legislated) mental health policy has been based on
deinstitutionalization and outpatient care through community mental health systems. But by …

The number of inpatients in US public mental hospitals declined from 559,000 in 1955 to
approximately 110,000 at present. Reductions resulted from release or transfer of long-term …

2 MECHANIC service system and in the management of psychiatric casualties during war
time impressed policymakers with the magnitude of mental health needs. They saw the …

Over the past 150 years, support for providing appropriate services for mentally ill persons
has waxed and waned. in colonial America, mentally ill persons were institutionalized in jails …

Rutgers,. The State University of New Jersey n mid-19th-century America, the asylum was I
widely regarded as the symbol of an enlightened and progressive nation that no longer …

More than three decades after the onset of deinstitutionalization in the United States, large
numbers of the severely mentally ill receive little or no psychiatric treatment. Many are …