The past several years have been witness to a growing debate concerning the de facto
system of mental hospitalization in the United States. Unfortunately, much of this debate has …

To delineate the role of a general hospital emergency ward in the treatment of
deinstitutionalized patients, the author analyzed the demographic and clinical characteristics …

This article describes the changes in the financing of the public mental health system over
the past 40 years. These changes have had profound effect on the organization and delivery …

As a result of the deinstitutionalization movement, increasing numbers of former state
hospital patients are being rehospitalized in general hospital psychiatric units. Because of …

The referral process between primary care physicians and a community mental health
center was examined in a community which lacks a geographically based psychiatrist. The …

Traditional forms of data-gathering have tended to underrepresent the care that community
mental health centers provide to the more chronic, or seriously ill, patients. Using an …

A state hospital began a program in 1975 to integrate the treatment services of the hospital
with those of six community mental health centers. The interlocking treatment system that …

METHOD An assessment of the impact of the screening program on admission rates to the
hospital was made utilizing a control time-series experimental design (Campbell & Stanley …

Avoiding hospitalization for the urban poor: Problems and prospects Page 1 Our way of
avoiding sending patients to the state hospital was a twenty-jive-patient day hospital and …

Mental health benefits can and should be included in any national health insurance (NHI)
plan. The field of clinical psychology is also under pressure to demonstrate the necessity for …