HSC 4201 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: National Cancer Institute, Deinstitutionalisation, Phenothiazine
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In the postwar 1940s, a number of factors brought about greater federal involvement in mental health care. New feelings of optimism in the country, together with testimony before congress by both military and civilian experts soon resulting in the passage of the national mental health act of. 1946 : established the national institute of mental health (nimh) Nimh came under the umbrella of the national institutes of health. To foster and aid research related to the cause, diagnosis, and treatment of neuropsychiatric disorders. To provide training and award fellowships and grants for work in mental health. To aid the states in the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of neuropsychiatric disorders. Public distress about the conditions in state mental hospitals continued to grow until the necessity of finding a new approach to caring for those with mental illness was clear and inescapable.
