Toward a public policy on the chronic mentally ill patient.
- 1 January 1980
- journal article
- Published by American Psychological Association (APA) in Australian and New Zealand Journal of Surgery
- Vol. 50 (1) , 43-53
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1939-0025.1980.tb03261.x
Abstract
This paper outlines the problems posed by the chronic mentally ill, which have become a national disgrace. The historical background of deinstitutionalization is reviewed, issues critical to an understanding of the problems of the chronic mental patient are examined, solutions are suggested, and a public policy on the chronic mental patient is proposed.Keywords
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- Care of the Chronically Mentally Ill—A National DisgraceAmerican Journal of Psychiatry, 1973