Criticizes many concepts and practices of the comunity mental health movement. Preventive
psychiatry as a goal is considered vague and impossible of fulfillment, and the concept of …

The community mental health center (CMHC) movement provoked controversy and debate
from its inception. This paper establishes a context for further assessments of the impact of …

The author describes the opposition to community mental health that has developed among
various professional and nonprofessional groups, indicating the reasons for their opposition …

T ODAY community mental health centers are in transition from concept to reality, from
theory to practice. Their evolution already has challenged and strained some long-held …

After a decade of virtually unquestioned federal support, the community mental health
movement has been put on notice by the present administration that it will not receive …

The death of community mental health practice has been predicted for many years. In the
US, the community mental health era began in the mid-19th century. However, the …

The passing of the Community Mental Health Act was supposed to signal a change in the
treatment of mental disorders. The idea was to embed interventions as much as possible in …

Methods This study was conducted as a partnership between academic researchers and the
National Council for Community Behavioral Health Care, the oldest and largest trade …

Abstract this chapter is a call to renewal among those who work in the community mental
health movement/in sounding a call to renewal I will make three overarching points/the end …