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

Throughout history it has always been easier to provide treatment to mentally ill persons in
self-contained, highly organized environments where those in charge have virtually …

Initial enthusiasm for community mental health has given way to a barrage of criticism,
musch of it deserved. Originated to deal with abysmal conditions in state hospitals …

Four Decades of Community Mental Health: A Symphony in Four Movements Page 1
Community Mental Health Journal, Vol. 39, No. 5, October 2003 ( 2003) Four Decades of …

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 …

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 …

The last half-century of psychiatric services in the United States is examined through
developments and trends reported in the 50 years of publication of Psychiatric Services. The …