In a recent six-month period, a state-operated community mental health center was required
to gather data for nine major surveys, reviews, and budget requests. Such surveys cover …

Residential community care facicilities for deinstitutionalized patients are severely criticized
for providing poor-quality care. Yet deinstitutionalization occurred without adequate …

An analysis of treatment statistics from three community mental health centers in California
indicates that the centers provide treatment to a substantial proportion of the psychotic …

Method In the fall of 1983 a 40-item questionnaire was developed, fieldtested, and
distributed to the 36 executive directors of the community mental health programs. The …

Objective The study examined a 95-bed locked community facility (an institute for mental
disease), one of 40 such facilities in California to which patients with increasingly difficult …

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 …

Abstract The President's Commission on Mental Health in the Report to the President in
1978, 17 years after the landmark report of the Joint Commission on Mental Illness and …

Beliefs that patients fall between the cracks in the transition from hospital to community
services, that the aftercare population is shut out of community mental health agencies, and …

Abstract The Federal Community Mental Health Centers Program (CMHC)—from 1963 to
1981—was heralded as a revolution in mental health care. Championed by many, and …

State mental health authorities confront many challenges in the post‐deinstitutionalization
era, especially in assuring appropriate treatment for the most seriously and persistently …