CRM 3311 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Dorothea Dix, Mental Health, Deinstitutionalisation
11 Nov 2018
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(4) the impact of deinstitutionalization on the current treatment of the mentally. While patients were hospitalized, drugs made them more manageable and thus had a calming effect on the often chaotic institutional environment. (p. 120: the mental retardation facilities and community mental health. Centers construction act of 1963 gave states an opportunity to shift costs to the federal government by promising funding for building and staffing community-based mental health centers and, in 1967, seed money to operate the new centers. More important, rapid expansion of american social welfare programs during the. 1960s provided opportunities for mentally ill people to obtain old. Age assistance, aid to permanently and totally disabled, old. In respecting an individual"s right to live freely in the community, commitment was to be limited to situations where grave consequences to the lives of the mentally ill person or others were immediately expected to occur. (p. 121)
