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It led to considerable deinstitutionalization. In 1955, Congress passed the Mental Health Study Act, leading to the establishment of the Joint Commission on Mental Illness and Mental Health. [2] That Commission issued a report in 1961, [3] which would become the basis of the 1963 Act. [2]
Deinstitutionalisation (or deinstitutionalization) is the process of replacing long-stay psychiatric hospitals with less isolated community mental health services for those diagnosed with a mental disorder or developmental disability.
Deinstitutionalisation largely occurred in the US between 1941 and 1980. [1] [2] In the US it was a consequence of the Social Security Act of 1935 (SSA), which allowed Aid to Dependent Children to be passed, and meant that children could no longer be removed from their families due to poverty alone. [3]
[14] [15] [16] Studies from the late 1980s indicated that one-third to one-half of homeless people had severe psychiatric disorders, often co-occurring with substance abuse. [ 17 ] [ 18 ] A process of indirect cost-shifting may have led to a form of "re-institutionalization" through the increased use of jail detention for those with mental ...
Sixty years after his assassination on November 22, 1963, Americans should reflect on John F. Kennedy’s unfinished yet transformational legacy on civil rights, writes historian Peniel E. Joseph.
Since the middle of the 20th century, the problem of institutionalization has been one of the motivating factors for the increasing popularity of deinstitutionalization and the growth of community mental health services, [2] [11] since some mental healthcare providers believe that institutional care may create as many problems as it solves.
Normalization is often described in articles and education texts that reflect deinstitutionalization, family care or community living as the ideology of human services. [ 17 ] [ 18 ] Its roots are European-American, and as discussed in education fields in the 1990s, reflect a traditional gender relationship-position (Racino, 2000), among ...
Pages in category "Deinstitutionalization in the United States" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .