Alternatives to mental patient rehospitalization
- 1 June 1966
- journal article
- conference paper
- Published by Springer Nature in Community Mental Health Journal
- Vol. 2 (2) , 124-128
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf01420685
Abstract
The high rate of return to the mental hospital constitutes a major public health problem for which our present posthospital services seem inadequate. This research indicates most ex-state mental hospital patients occupy family role positions which are not central and decisive, and have a high degree of financial and social dependency. Given these facts, what would be needed to prevent their return to a state mental hospital? A new system of meeting the social needs of ex-patients must be developed. Suggestions made imply a radical change in professional services-both in kind and degree. In short, the ex-patient seems to require more than “out-patient” services.This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
- Social class and mental illness: Community study.Published by American Psychological Association (APA) ,1958