IN CALIFORNIA, our basic policy about state hospital admissions is to do everything
possible to predude court commitments. We also believe that voluntary and other types of …

A new system for delivering mental health services in the United States is now being
developed. The system depends on the establishment of a new organizational form, the …

The community mental health center (CMHC) movement, largely conceived by psychiatrists
to improve standards of mental health care nationally, appears to be going through an …

A comprehensive system of community treatment in southwest Denver has reduced the
need for adult psychiatric inpatient beds to less than 1/100,000 population. Six small …

The successful incorporation of the private practice of psychiatry into a system of community
mental health care was attributable to several factors. They included an affluent catchment …

Discusses problems associated with community-based treatment for the mentally ill and
describes a new federal policy initiative to improve services to this group. Features of the …

A newly organized, 550 bed hospital, rendering comprehensive, psychiatric care (day
hospital, night hospital, post-hospital, pre-hospital and consultation) to residents of Dutchess …

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 …

Suggests that the state hospital needs more interchange of professional knowledge with
psychiatrists in the community. It is untrue that all psychiatric disorders are best treated in the …

This paper presents the results of a 1980 survey of a random sample of 1,471 chronically
mentally disabled adults in community support systems sponsored by the National Institute …