New Directions for Mental Health Services, Deinstitutionalization
Subtitle: Promise and Problems, No. 90 (J-B MHS Single Issue Mental Health Services)
Contributors: Richard H. Lamb (Editor); Linda E. Weinberger (Editor)
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Published: July 25, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 120
ISBN-13: 9780787914394
Subjects: Psychology; Developmental Psychology; Mental Health Services; Medical; Psychotherapy - General; Psychology & Psychiatry / Psychotherapy; Developmental - General; Mental Health
First sentence: Among the milestones in the care and treatment of chronically and severely mentally ill persons in the second half of the twentieth century, deinstitutionalization (the mass exodus of mentally ill persons from living in hospitals to living in the community), the discovery of chlorpromazine and other modern antipsychotic medications, and the development of community psychosocial treatment and rehabilitation stand out.