The Community Mental Health Center Amendments of 1975 (Public Law 94-63) mandate
that federally funded mental health centers provide specific services to patients discharged …

The community mental health center model with its varied direct clinical services becomes a
white elephant when applied to rural states and areas. The model does not fulfill the mental …

During the last 15 years, there have been apparently contradictory criticisms of staffing
patterns, and hence of care provided, in community mental health centers (CMHCs). To test …

An analysis of the current roles of the federally funded community mental health center and
the public mental hospital suggests that despite the rhetoric about a community mental …

Conventional wisdom views state psychiatric hospitals as a problem as much as a solution
in the fight against mental illness. The legacy of the historic shortcomings of these hospitals …

A private psychiatric hospital that developed comprehensive community mental health
services was able to reduce admissions to state hospitals from its catchment area to two …

Abstract The Washington State Mental Health Outcome Study was intended (a) to collect
descriptive data on the status of a cross-sectional sample of the client caseload in state …

Fewer and fewer psychiatrists seem interested in pursuing a career in community mental
health. The author examines some of the possible reasons for the lack of interest, such as …

Historically, the status of mental health services in the United States has depended upon the
economic stability of the nation; much of the financial support of these programs has come …

W the Community Mental Health Centers Act was passed in 1963, the federal gov-ernment
set general guidelines for operation, 7 based primarily on traditional medical models of …