The author examines some of the social, legislative, and therapeutic developments of the
past 25 years, particularly trends that arose in the 1960s, that have influenced the way in …

State hospitals still account for the majority of the state dollars spent on mental health care
across the nation. Why do state hospitals persist and expand despite public scandal and …

The original model for the community mental health center was a health-oriented treatment
facility associated with a community hospital, operated under medical leadership, and …

The authors describe the dichotomy in the concept of community mental health centers. One
view regards the community mental health center as a service provider for underserved …

Throughout their history private psychiatric hospitals have been a major force in psychiatry,
and their humanistic concern for the mentally ill has resulted in numerous innovations in …

The therapeutic residential center in a community mental health system Page 1 Therapeutic
Residential Centers offer a cost-effective, clinically responsible alternative to state hospital and …

Institutions of Higher Education (IHEs) are recognizing with greater clarity that they cannot
educate the minds of their students without attending to the health of those same minds. As …

Ms. Power told the audience of clinicians that because they provide care at the most basic
and personal level, they have the greatest opportunity to implement real changes …

The new state mental hospitals in the community Page 1 Serious problems result when the
community alternatives to state hospitalization, often driven by lower costs and an ideology …

Abstract The American State Hospital has survived over 200 years. Society once viewed
state hospitals as an absolute necessity and each state constructed numerous hospitals …