Classics of Community Psychiatry: Fifty Years of Public Mental Health Outside the Hospital

by Larry Davidson, Kenneth Thompson, Martha Lawless

The massive depopulation of state mental hospitals in the 1950s (known as "deinstitutionalization") posed special challenges to mental health consumers in need of intensive psychiatric treatment. No longer confined to long-term inpatient psychiatric wards, consumers were thrust into nursing homes, assisted living centers, and onto the streets. Psychiatric treatment was relocated to the community, and the concept of recovery took on a new meaning...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195326040
• ISBN13: 9780195326048
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 648 Pages
• Weight: 2.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 7.2" x 9.9"