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 …

In the United States, the movement toward community-based care for people with long-term
mental illness began in the 1950s. It was born out of the belief that long hospitalization …

FOR fifteen years mental health workers in this country have been grappling with. the
consequences of a fundamental policy change in the mental health field. This reform was …

A coNcEmuA. mzATIoN of psychiatric treatment in the future is beginning to emerge as
reports from several levels of private and public agencies are published. The trend toward …

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 …

The orignal intent of community mental health centers was that they would treat the mentally
ill. The more than 750 centers now operating are drifting away from that health service …

During the past decade, in the United States and in certain other advanced industrial
societies, efforts have been under way to care for persons with severe, chronic psychotic …

In this progress report on the community mental health centers program, the Director of the
National Institute of Mental Health reviews existing patterns of support, community …

The client group referred to as the long-term mentally ill, the persistently severely mentally
distressed, the chronically psychotic ill, or people with long-term mental health problems …

This policy statement from the American Association of Community Psychiatrists represents
a welcome rapprochement between psychiatry and psychosocial rehabilitation. The fields of …