Never before had an American president sent a message to the Congress on the mental
health of the nation. But on 5 February, 1963 John Kennedy did [1]. He spoke of the need for …

PSYCHIATRIC ANNALS 5: 9/SEPTEMBER 1975 PSYCHIATRY: STATE OF THE ART
community mental health center and the way in which it was implemented have been recited …

This article traces the development of psychiatric services from their institutional base at the
turn of the century to the enactment of the Community Mental Health Center Act of 1963 …

The author describes the history and implications of recent legislation affecting community
mental health centers. New legislative requirements will result in centers seeing typically …

The authors trace the history of community psychiatry along six lines of development—social
psychiatry, changes in hospital programs, development of clinics, evolution of the mental …

The community mental health center (CMHC) movement, largely conceived by psychiatrists
to improve standards of mental health care nationally, appears to be going through an …

IN ADDITION to being thought of as a social movement, community mental health can be
described as what we will be doing in the 70s or as a base from which to launch new models …

Abstract The Mental Health Study Act of 1955 (PL 84-182) authorized an" objective,
thorough, and nationwide analysis and reevaluation of the human and economic problems …

What will be the future of public mental hospitals as community mental health center
programs expand? The authors suggest that their emerging role lies in joining the …

Chronic severe disability is sometimes associated with long-term mental disorders.
Whenever a mentally disordered person decompensates in personal and social functioning …