50 years after deinstitutionalization mental illness in contemporary communities.

• Other Authors: Perry, Brea L.
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley, U.K. : Emerald, 2016.
• Series: Advances in medical sociology ; v. 17.
• Subjects: Medical > Mental Health.; Mental health services.; Mentally ill > Deinstitutionalization.; Mental illness > Public opinion.; Mental illness > Treatment.

Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, a revolution in mental health policy and practice known as deinstitutionalization occurred in Europe and the US. This movement was catalyzed by criticisms of psychiatric institutions and resulted in the release of thousands of people with serious mental illness from l...