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The demography of deinstitutionalization

New Directions for Mental Health Services, 1983
AbstractOnce defined as long‐term residents of psychiatric hospitals, the chronically mentally ill today are a heterogeneous population living in a variety of institutional and community settings.
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Deinstitutionalization in intellectual disabilities

Current Opinion in Psychiatry, 2007
The process of deinstitutionalization for intellectual disability services is at different stages across the world, varying from complete closure in Sweden to a vague hope in Taiwan. This review explores recent literature on deinstitutionalization and intellectual disabilities and focuses on papers published in academic journals mainly during 2006.Work
Beadle-Brown, Julie., Mansell, Jim., Kozma, Agnes.   +2 more
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Deinstitutionalization and Welfare Policies

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1985
Before America began creating a federally based welfare state in the 1930s, most publicly funded responses to social problems had an institutional bias. The ways in which the welfare programs initiated 50 years ago have helped to influence institutional trends, and are likely to continue doing so in the future, constitute the major focus of this ...
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Deinstitutionalization: A microcosmic perspective

The journal of mental health administration, 1982
Changes have taken place in caring for chronic patients due to deinstitutionalization, and these changes have affected the services rendered by the community mental health centers. Statistical data on dehospitalized patients treated in a community mental health center located in the South Central Bronx are examined to determine trends in service ...
Simari Cg, Baskin D
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Deinstitutionalization in the Absence of Consensus

Psychiatric Services, 1979
The process of deinstitutionalization began almost unnoticed in 1955 as state hospital populations started to decline, and it proceeded without adequate planning and without development of a social consensus. The inevitable result was strong criticism, severe personal dislocations, and, with rare exceptions, programmatic chaos.
Lee B. Macht, Donald J. Scherl
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Testing the limits of deinstitutionalization

Psychiatric Services, 1995
From 1978 to 1993, under favorable administrative and political conditions and protected by a court-ordered consent decree, a comprehensive community-based mental health system was established in western Massachusetts that entirely replaced Northampton State Hospital.
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Homelessness and the implementation of deinstitutionalization

New Directions for Mental Health Services, 1986
AbstractThe implementation of deinstitutionalizartion reflects deeply held negative attitudes about chronically mentally ill persons and has contributed to the large numbers of psychiatrically disabled indiutduals on our city streets.
Ellen L. Bassuk, H. Richard Lamb
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Deinstitutionalization of the Developmentally Disabled

Social Work, 1983
Rights Act of 1978 (P.L. 95-602).1 Briefly, the term "developmental dis ability" refers to a severe, chronic handicap that is characterized by permanent deficits in cognitive and adaptive functioning.2 Specific dis abling conditions include mental re tardation, epilepsy, cerebral palsy, autism, dyslexia, deafness, blindness, learning disability, or any
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Transinstitutionalization, not Deinstitutionalization

Contemporary Psychology: A Journal of Reviews, 1987
Originally published in Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books, 1987, Vol 32(11), 974. Reviews the book, The Transfer of Care: Psychiatric Deinstitutionalization and its Aftermath by Phil Brown (1985). The author's plan of the text is well articulated.
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The Antecedents of Deinstitutionalization

Organization Studies, 1992
Deinstitutionalization refers here to the erosion or discontinuity of an institution alized organizational activity or practice. This paper identifies a set of organiza tional and environmental factors that are hypothesized to determine the likelihood that institutionalized organizational behaviours will be vulnerable to erosion or rejection over time.
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