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 …

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 …

The author delineates some of the critical issues that face community mental health, with the
opportunity for either growth and further development or regression into a decentralized type …

The author cites some examples from his own and others' experience to illustrate the issues
that have emerged in the movement toward community control of mental health centers …

THE past decade has witnessed a phenomenal growth of interest in community mental
health in the United States. Articles concerning community treatment of the mentally ill were …

For 150 years public institutions, caught between society's insistence that all needy persons
receive some kind of services and taxpayers' reluctance to support such services, have been …

With impending fiscal shortages limiting the growth of new community mental health
services and the ability of mental hospitals to perform contemporary tasks remaining …

A private psychiatric hospital that developed comprehensive community mental health
services was able to reduce admissions to state hospitals from its catchment area to two …

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 …

The authors examine the value of community mental health centers, using the San Francisco
system as a model. This system shows a reduction in distant state and local hospital use and …