Psychiatric Services
- Volume 55
- Number 10
- October 2004
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Publication date: 01 October 2004
Pages1112–1115The reasons for the problems created by deinstitutionalization have only recently become clear; they include a lack of consensus about the movement, no real testing of its philosophic bases, the lack of planning for alternative facilities and services (...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.55.10.1112Publication date: 01 October 2004
Pages1118–1123This statement was approved by the Assembly at its October 1978 meeting and by the Board of Trustees at its December 1978 meeting upon recommendation of the Ad Hoc Committee on the Chronic Mental Patient. It was prepared by the Ad Hoc Committee on the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.55.10.1118Publication date: 01 October 2004
Pages1136–1140Psychiatry faces a vast array of problems today, including its inability to implement programs for the chronic mentally ill and to apply principles of differential therapeutics, the lack of funds for community services, and the continuing severe ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.55.10.1136Publication date: 01 October 2004
Pages1145–1149The estimated 1.7 to 2.4 million Americans who suffer from chronic mental illness are poorly served by the current nonsystem of services. No agency at any level is responsible for coordination of funding, treatment, and care. Since the mid-1950s funding ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.55.10.1145