New problems in changing state psychiatric hospitals

This paper discussed the changing role of state psychiatric hospitals within the mental health system. Important factors included state demographics, the education and training of psychiatric residents, and the revolutionary changes taking place within the medical care system in America. The author...

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Published in:Psychiatric quarterly 1988, Vol.59 (2), p.103-112
Main Author: PLATMAN, S. R
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Biological and medical sciences
Community Mental Health Services - trends
Cost Control - trends
Hospitals, Psychiatric - trends
Hospitals, Public - trends
Hospitals, State - trends
Humans
Medical sciences
Mental Disorders - therapy
Mental health
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Social psychiatry. Ethnopsychiatry
United States
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Summary:This paper discussed the changing role of state psychiatric hospitals within the mental health system. Important factors included state demographics, the education and training of psychiatric residents, and the revolutionary changes taking place within the medical care system in America. The author emphasized the importance of viewing specific approaches to system problems from a total mental health system perspective.
ISSN:0033-2720
1573-6709
DOI:10.1007/BF01065099