In recent decades the community mental health movement has achieved a dramatic
reduction in the census of state and county mental hospitals in the United States, and …

Three major cycles of reform in public mental health care in the United States—the moral
treatment, mental hygiene, and community mental health movements—are described as a …

Between the 1940s and the 1970s mental health policy in the United States underwent a
fundamental change as the legitimacy of institutional care was undermined by individuals …

Rutgers,. The State University of New Jersey n mid-19th-century America, the asylum was I
widely regarded as the symbol of an enlightened and progressive nation that no longer …

" I recommend this book to all mental health professionals and students in this field; it
provides the reader with a historical perspective that can add meaning, and perhaps even …

Abstract The Mental Health Study Act of 1955 (PL 84-182) authorized an" objective,
thorough, and nationwide analysis and reevaluation of the human and economic problems …

The authors trace the history of community psychiatry along six lines of development—social
psychiatry, changes in hospital programs, development of clinics, evolution of the mental …

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 …

Originally published in 1985, at a time when the previous 2 decades had witnessed dramatic
changes in the US mental health system. These included the decline of the state mental …

Prologue: At a time when health care resources are tight and the competing claims for their
use are intensifying, mental health policy issues constitute a serious challenge to society. In …