The Future of the State Mental Hospital: Developing a Unified System of Care
Abstract
The authors emphasize that the future of state mental hospitals should be considered only in the context of a unified system of care and treatment of the mentally ill. They discuss changing perceptions of mental hospitals as resources for mental health care, describe trends that must be considered in developing a unified system of services, and make recommendations about treatment plans, staffing, funding, organization and governance, and legal codes and standards of the components of a unified system.
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