An analysis of the current roles of the federally funded community mental health center and
the public mental hospital suggests that despite the rhetoric about a community mental …

The author describes the history and implications of recent legislation affecting community
mental health centers. New legislative requirements will result in centers seeing typically …

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After a decade of virtually unquestioned federal support, the community mental health
movement has been put on notice by the present administration that it will not receive …

In recent decades the community mental health movement has achieved a dramatic
reduction in the census of state and county mental hospitals in the United States, and …

What will be the future of public mental hospitals as community mental health center
programs expand? The authors suggest that their emerging role lies in joining the …

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 …

" I recommend this book to all mental health professionals and students in this field; it
provides the reader with a historical perspective that can add meaning, and perhaps even …

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 …