Federal mental health policymaking: An assessment of deinstitutionalization

Argues that significant advances in psychopharmacology and psychology have occurred in the last 3 decades and that the technologies of treating serious mental disorders have improved accordingly. The authors describe the emerging issues of efficacious and cost-effective applications of these technol...

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Published in:The American psychologist 1983-12, Vol.38 (12), p.1292-1297
Main Author: Kiesler, Charles A
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Biological and medical sciences
Community Mental Health Services
Deinstitutionalization
Deinstitutionalization - trends
Government Policy Making
Health Policy - trends
Human
Humans
Medical sciences
Mental Disorders - therapy
Mental health
Mental Health Services - trends
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Social psychiatry. Ethnopsychiatry
United States
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Summary:Argues that significant advances in psychopharmacology and psychology have occurred in the last 3 decades and that the technologies of treating serious mental disorders have improved accordingly. The authors describe the emerging issues of efficacious and cost-effective applications of these technologies to an increasingly complex system of needs and populations, their potential role in public policy, and their relationship to recent federal policy decisions. (18 ref)
ISSN:0003-066X
1935-990X
DOI:10.1037/0003-066X.38.12.1292