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 …

MIDST ALL the blame and acclaim, the impassioned oratory, the many journal articles and
the books, it is easy to forget that the community mental health centers program is still very …

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 …

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 …

ETTING what one wants may be one of life's disillusionments, but it is also instructive. In
October 1963, supporters of the “community mental health” approach to psychiatry got a …

During my tenure as a mental health administrator for these past 27 years, I have served as
Director of Community Mental Health Services for the Department of Mental Health in Maine …

G. what one wants may be one of life's disillusionments, but it is also instructive. In Oc-tober,
1963, supporters of the “community men-tal health" approach to psychiatry got a good deal …

American Journal of Community Psychology, Vol. 6, No. 2, 1978 Trends In Community
Mental Health Programming1 Francis T. Miller, 2 Noel A. Mazade, and Sally Muller School of …

The swift movement of events in both the fields of mental health and of social action presents
all mental health professionals with fresh opportunity and equally fresh challenge. In a long …

With Pre sident Kennedy's signature on October 31, 1963, the bill to create a national
Community Mental Health Centers Program became law. The first community mental health …