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 …

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 …

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

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 …

State mental health authorities confront many challenges in the post‐deinstitutionalization
era, especially in assuring appropriate treatment for the most seriously and persistently …

" Community Life for the Mentally Ill" presents a social innovative experiment aimed at
providing new and more participating social positions in American society for mental …

Abstract The President's Commission on Mental Health in the Report to the President in
1978, 17 years after the landmark report of the Joint Commission on Mental Illness and …

The Community Mental Health Center Amendments of 1975 (Public Law 94-63) mandate
that federally funded mental health centers provide specific services to patients discharged …

Beliefs that patients fall between the cracks in the transition from hospital to community
services, that the aftercare population is shut out of community mental health agencies, and …

A coNcEmuA. mzATIoN of psychiatric treatment in the future is beginning to emerge as
reports from several levels of private and public agencies are published. The trend toward …