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 …

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 …

In summary, the development of programs in the community serving the severely and
chronically mentally ill is a political-sociological activity requiring a detailed working …

The major burden of mental illness borne by our communities is imposed by severely
mentally disordered people who become chronically deteriorated in their social functioning …

Reviews some of the work during the past 5 yrs involving the chronic mentally ill, including
the areas of community attitudes about the chronically ill, involvement with their families …

Over the last 20 years, many people who spent major portions of their lives in large
psychiatric institutions have left those institutions and are now spending long periods of time …

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 census in state hospitals nationwide reached its peak of 560,000 in 1955 and has gone
down steadily since then to its current low of under 140,000 (Meyer, 1974–1975)(Figure 1) …

This paper reviews research on the community treatment of the chronically mentally ill, in
order to determine what services are necessary for deinstitutionalization to succeed with this …

Unfortunately, the means by which the chronically mentally ill could successfully be returned
to community life were not articulated, and comprehensive treatment approaches were …