50 years after deinstitutionalization mental illness in contemporary communities.

Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, a revolution in mental health policy and practice known as deinstitutionalization occurred in Europe and the US. This movement was catalyzed by criticisms of psychiatric institutions and resulted in the release of thousands of people with serious mental illness from l...

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Other Authors Perry, Brea L.
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K. : Emerald, 2016.
SeriesAdvances in medical sociology ; v. 17.
Subjects
Mentally ill > Deinstitutionalization.
Mental illness > Public opinion.
Mental illness > Treatment.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781785604027
ISSN1057-6290 ;
DOI10.1108/S1057-6290201617
Physical Description1 online resource (xxiv, 317 p.)

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Table of Contents:
  • Same problem, different century: issues in recreating the functions of public psychiatric hospitals in community based settings / William Fisher, Jeffrey Geller, Dana McMannus
  • "Forever children" and autonomous citizens: comparing the deinstitutionalizations of psychiatric patients and developmentally disabled individuals in the US / Adrianna Bagnall, Gil Eyal
  • An institutional analysis of public sector mental health in the post-deinstitutionalization era / Teresa Scheid
  • Social environment and mental illness: the progress and paradox of deinstitutionalization / Russell Schutt
  • The revolving door: patient needs and network turnover during mental health treatment / Will Mcconnell, Brea Perry
  • Understandings of community among people using publicly funded community mental health services / Alisa Lincoln, Wallis Adams
  • Revisiting the relationships among community mental health services, stigma and well-being / Kristen Marcussen, Christian Ritter
  • The self-stigma of psychiatric patients: implications for identities, emotions, and the life course / Sarah Harkness, Amy Kroska, Bernice Pescosolido
  • The "dignity of the sick": managing social stigma by mental patients in the community / Nana Tuntiya
  • Borderline personality disorder and the biomedical mismatch / Sandra Sulzer, Gracie Jackson, Ashelee Yang
  • Soldier, elder, prisoner, ward: psychotropics in the era of transinstitutionalization / Anthony Hatch, Marik Xavier-Brier, Brandon Attell, Eryn Viscarra.

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