The Eclipse of the State Mental Hospital: Policy, Stigma, and Organization
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0791428966
ISBN 13
9780791428962
Category
Public Policy
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Publication Year
1996
Publisher
Pages
276
Description
State hospitals still account for the majority of the state dollars spent on mental health care across the nation. Why do state hospitals persist and expand despite public scandal and professional disapproval? What role does the state mental hospital play in the current system of care for the seriously mentally ill? What role should it play, and at what cost? Dowdall explores recent efforts, successful and unsuccessful, to meet the increasingly elaborate standards imposed from without on the contemporary state mental hospital, and the impact of these efforts on the quality of care provided to its patients.
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