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 …

David Snow and Leon Anderson show us the wretched face of homelessness in late
twentieth-century America in countless cities across the nation. Through hundreds of hours …

Decarceration (decreasing the number of persons incarcerated in US jails and prisons) has
begun. It is estimated that more than 350,000 persons with serious mental illness (SMI) are …

OBJECTIVE: Homelessness and patterns of service use were examined among seriously
mentally ill persons in an area with a well-funded community-based mental health system …

This article begins with the history of the rise and fall of the state hospitals and subsequent
criminalization of persons with serious mental illness (SMI). Currently, there is a belief …

While the demand for deinstitutionalisation, strongly supported by the economic aspect of
the issue, has resulted in a steep decline in the number of psychiatric beds in many Western …

By combining the therapeutic and rehabilitative effects of assertive community treatment,
family psychoeducation, and the multifamily group, better use of an expanded social network …

THIS BOOK HAS COME ABOUT through" the love and labor of many,” as I learned to say at
school, and I especially want to mention two indispensable readers and editors. It was Marie …

OBJECTIVE: The state psychiatric hospital is experiencing an increase in medically sick and
aging patients who die of natural causes while hospitalized. This study explored the" …

On the basis of the principle that patients have the right to be treated in the least restrictive
setting appropriate to their needs, all 368 patients at Northampton State Hospital …