Three decades after the deinstitutionalization movement began, treatment, rehabilitation,
and support for individuals with severe and persistent mental illness continue to shift from …

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 …

The author cites increasing numbers of chronic, homeless, and neglected mentally ill people
as evidence of the failure of deinstitutionalization and community care to live up to their …

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 …

There has been a consistent effort to move treatment and support for persons with severe
and disabling psychiatric disabilities into community-based settings and the rate of …

E. Barton, MD, described trends in community mental health care driven in part by the
Kennedy-Johnson legislation establishing community mental health centers. Dr. Sharfstein …

Objectives This analytical review is intended to update the author's earlier writings on the
position of the state mental hospital within the spectrum of services for long-term mental …

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

Among its principal goals, the community mental health model aims at reducing disability
due to mental illness through early crisis intervention. A large midwest regional center has …

The release of chronic mental patients from the hospital to the community has been
prompted more by political and economic considerations than by any planned treatment …