State and County Mental Health Hospitals, United States and Each State
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 34,5 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Mentally ill
ISBN :
State Mental Hospitals
Author : John A. Talbott
Publisher :
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 23,36 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Medical
ISBN :
Book Description
The Eclipse of the State Mental Hospital
Author : George W. Dowdall
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 26,89 MB
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780791428955
Book Description
Examines the origins, recent history, and future of state hospitals.
State Mental Hospitals
Author : Paul Ahmed
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 40,61 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1461342651
Book Description
The 1970s constitute the decade of decisions about state mental hospi tals! These large, monolithic, and seemingly impervious institutions are being phased out in some states and their basic purpose for exis tence is being seriously questioned in almost all others. Since 1970, hospitals have closed in California, Illinois, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New York, Oklahoma, Washington, and Wisconsin. Simi lar closings have occurred in several provinces of Canada, in Great Britain, and in some European countries. The purpose of the book is to examine the multiple issues growing out of the hospital closings: Why are the state hospitals being closed? What is the impact of closings on patients, hospital staff, and the communities where the hospitals are located? What has been the impact on the communities receiving these patients? What are the trends for the future, in terms of numbers of closings and types of hospitals which will remain? Is there a role for the state hospital in the care of the mentally ill or is it an obsolete institution? The impetus for the closings is diverse. The discovery and wide spread use of the tranquilizing drugs in the early 1950s allowed more patients to be returned to the community-under medication.
State and County Mental Hospitals, United States, 1973-74
Author : Michael J. Witkin
Publisher :
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 48,59 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Mental illness
ISBN :
Book Description
Patterns of Retention, Release, and Death of First Admissions to State Mental Hospitals
Author : National Institute of Mental Health (U.S.). Biometrics Branch
Publisher :
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 33,89 MB
Release : 1959
Category : Mentally ill
ISBN :
Book Description
The Shame of the States
Author : Albert Deutsch
Publisher :
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 30,43 MB
Release : 1948
Category : Insane
ISBN :
Book Description
Expose on the deplorable conditions in state mental hospitals, including overcrowding, understaffing, inadequate budgets, lack of adequate treatment facilities, etc. It consists mostly of pieces written for the New York newspaper PM and its successor the Star, as well as some less journalistic content, written from 1940-1948.
State Mental Hospitals and the Elderly
Author : American Psychiatric Association. Task Force on Geriatric Psychiatry in the Public Mental Health Sector
Publisher : Association
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 26,53 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Medical
ISBN :
Book Description
"By 1987, elderly patients comprised nearly one-fifth of all residents of state and county mental hospitals. During the past three decades, the deinstitutionalization movement has profoundly altered the care of elderly patients in state and county mental hospitals. In this task force report, leaders in the fields of geriatrics and long-term care present an overview of state-run mental hospitals. This report recommends the establishment of efficient, high-quality, and appropriately targeted state mental hospital services for elderly patients that will lead to the development of a comprehensive psychogeriatric care system." "State Mental Hospitals and the Elderly presents a review of the history and current status of care of elderly patients, the barriers that exist to improving psychogeriatric services, paradigms of psychogeriatric inpatient care, the role state hospitals play in the care of mentally ill elderly patients, the responsibilities of state mental hospitals for elderly patients with Alzheimer's disease and related disorders, training opportunities at state hospitals for residents and fellows in geriatric psychiatry, and recommendations for action needed to improve geriatric care for elderly patients."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Asylum for the Insane
Author : William A. Decker
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 39,8 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Psychiatric hospitals
ISBN : 9781933926049
Book Description
Product Description: To establish the context within which the Kalamazoo Hospital came to be built, Decker begins the story in Europe in the previous centuries with historical antecedents, theories about mental illness and the treatment of mental disorders. These formative, primitive ideas were gradually adopted in this country where very little understanding of mental disorders existed. When the Kalamazoo State Hospital was founded, then named the Michigan Asylum for the Insane, in 1854, there were no private practitioners of psychiatry even in the largest cities. Psychiatry grew out of the exchange of information between the medical staff of these new public institutions. Dr. Decker gives readers a comprehensive view of Michigan s first psychiatric facility including the architectural style and plans, building descriptions and history, Legislative Acts regarding the operation and governance, personnel including Medical Directors, historical perspective on the causes of insanity, their treatment and services, noteworthy events and a complete bibliography and appendixes.
Report of the Joint Senate and House Committee to Study the State Mental Hospitals
Author : Maryland. Joint Senate and House Committee to Study the State Mental Hospitals
Publisher :
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 36,70 MB
Release : 1949
Category : Insanity (Law)
ISBN :
