Deinstitutionalization in the USA [PDF]
The task of summarizing the experience of public mental hospitals in the USA is perhaps impossible and unrewarding as far as UK-based psychiatry is concerned. The complex governmental and insurance intrastructure, the heterogeneity of approaches and the disappointing rhetorical stance one observes in learned journals make it difficult to translate ...
Leonard Fagin
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Deinstitutionalization revisited
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to offer a new analysis and understanding of the notion of deinstitutionalization. Deinstitutionalization of taken-for-granted practices as a natural consequence of ever-increasing entropy seems to directly contradict the major institutional thesis, namely, that over time isomorphic forces increase and, as a result,
Herman Aksom
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‘Heading up a blind alley’? Scottish psychiatric hospitals in the era of deinstitutionalization [PDF]
This article examines Scottish provision of psychiatric care in the 1960s and 1970s. It demonstrates that institutional services did not rapidly disappear across the UK following the Ministry of Health’s decision to shut down psychiatric hospitals in ...
Long, Vicky
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Double Secret Protection: Bridging Federal and State Law To Protect Privacy Rights for Telemental and Mobile Health Users [PDF]
Mental health care in the United States is plagued by stigma, cost, and access issues that prevent many people from seeking and continuing treatment for mental health conditions. Emergent technology, however, may offer a solution.
Eklund, Per+5 more
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Entrepreneurial sons, patriarchy and the Colonels' experiment in Thessaly, rural Greece [PDF]
Existing studies within the field of institutional entrepreneurship explore how entrepreneurs influence change in economic institutions. This paper turns the attention of scholarly inquiry on the antecedents of deinstitutionalization and more ...
Ahmadjian CL+89 more
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Comparative social capital: Networks of entrepreneurs and investors in China and Russia [PDF]
Most studies on entrepreneurs’ networks incorporate social capital and networks as independent variables that affect entrepreneurs’ actions and its outcomes.
Batjargal, Bat
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Understanding psychiatric institutionalization: a conceptual review [PDF]
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work ...
A Boardman+86 more
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Deviancy, Dependency, and Disability: The Forgotten History of Eugenics and Mass Incarceration [PDF]
Three widely discussed explanations of the punitive carceral state are racism, harsh drug laws, and prosecutorial overreach. These three narratives, however, only partially explain how our correctional system expanded to its current overcrowded state ...
Appleman, Laura I
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Letting Go: Conceptualizing intervention de-implementation in public health and social service settings [PDF]
The discontinuation of interventions that should be stopped, or de-implementation, has emerged as a novel line of inquiry within dissemination and implementation science.
Brownson, Ross C+4 more
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Learning From History: Deinstitutionalization of People with Mental Illness as Precursor to Long-Term Care Reform [PDF]
Considers the deinstitutionalization of state mental hospital patients over the past fifty years, and uses this as a model for evaluating reform efforts of custodial and long-term care services for the ...
Chris Koyanagi
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