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A 4 page research paper that offers an overview of the history and significance of the community mental health movement, which resulted in the deinstitutionalization of mental health patients in in the latter half of the twentieth century. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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of the twentieth century. Shame of the States by Albert Deutsch, published in 1948, alerted the country to the shameful conditions in a Pennsylvania state mental hospital. The Joint Commission
on Mental Illness and Health investigated and issued their report Action for Mental Health in 1960. This led to legislation that the development of Community Mental Health Clinics as the
primary means for addressing the needs of mentally ill individuals (Smucker 5). Care for the mentally ill shifted from being primarily carried out in state institutions to offering mental
health service within communities, with the federal government providing funding for creating comprehensive community mental health centers. Community Mental Health Centers were mandated by federal legislation to provide five fundamental
services, which were emergency care, inpatient care, outpatient care, partial hospitalization and education/consultation services ( Smucker 16). However, their mandate did not include providing either rehabilitation or case management services,
and this resulted in failure of these centers to provide aftercare services or even minimal rehabilitation (Smucker 16). Consequently, it soon became apparent that the centers were not addressing all
of the needs of deinstitutionalized mental health patients, and this realization provided the impetus for the development of the community support movement, which focused on developing the support systems necessary
to address such social welfare needs as housing and job training (Ritter and Lampkin 11). Social bias against the people suffering from mental illness translates into having limited access
to resources and opportunities, and increasing social isolation, which leads to low self-esteem and a sense of hopelessness (Ritter and Lampkin 12). Historically, most people have found it difficult to
differentiate between ordinary worry and unhappiness and mental illness, while they labeled any extreme in behavior as psychosis and associated it with the fear of unpredictable, violent behavior (Ritter and
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