To prepare for this conference [The Joint United States/England Conference on Mental
Health Services on which this book is based], we asked experts on the US mental health …

About a decade after the enactment of the Community Mental Health Centers Act (PL 88-
164) in 1963, the American health service delivery system began a period of profound …

WHEN a local mental health program is developed, it is hoped that one result will be that
fewer patients will have to be sent to a state mental hospital. Changes in state hospital …

Lower salary costs and effective provision of services to specific community groups are
counted among the advantages of the use of mental health workers in community programs …

This document contains statistics on mental illness and organized mental health service
delivery systems. Data sources cited include the National Institute of Mental Health, state …

Expenditures for mental health services, as a proportion of health care expenditures, have
plummeted in the past decade. Concurrently psychologists have been unable to muster …

The authors evaluate a group of mental health system reforms undertaken in recent years by
the state of New Hampshire. A key reform was the coordination of authority over Medicaid …

METHOD Under the auspices of the Massachusetts League of Neighborhood Health
Centers(a consumer-professional coalition of 40 centers across the state, devoted to …

State-by-State data concerning the sources of funding, expenditures, and staffing for mental
health services in State correctional facilities are reported for 1988 from the first national …

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 …