The Mental Hospital in the Era of Human Services
Abstract
New human-services systems are being developed to deal comprehensively with the nonpsychiatric as well as the psychiatric problems of clients. Given proper statutory and administrative sanctions, mental hospitals capable of establishing links to the local human-services system can undergo major change in clients and functions so that within a decade they will be operating as human-services centers. The author suggests that hospitals failing to achieve that goal will be phased out and closed. He also discusses a proposal that a hospital support its budget by selling services to a variety of human-services agencies.
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