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Eclipse of the State Mental Hospital

Policy, Stigma, and Organization

Häftad, Engelska, 1996

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Examines the origins, recent history, and future of state hospitals.State hospitals still account for the majority of the state dollars spent on mental health care across the nation. Why do state hospitals persist and expand despite public scandal and professional disapproval? What role does the state mental hospital play in the current system of care for the seriously mentally ill? What role should it play, and at what cost? Dowdall explores recent efforts, successful and unsuccessful, to meet the increasingly elaborate standards imposed from without on the contemporary state mental hospital, and the impact of these efforts on the quality of care provided to its patients.

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Utgivningsdatum1996-04-11
Mått151 x 229 x 14 mm
Vikt386 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieSUNY series in the Sociology of Work and Organizations
Antal sidor262
FörlagState University of New York Press
ISBN9780791428962

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List of Figures List of Tables Acknowledgments Preface 1. State Mental Hospitals as the Organizaitonal Pivot of Policy 2. The Natural History of an Organizational Form: The State Mental Hospital 3. "A Most Noble Charity": The Birth of a State Asylum 4. Organizational Development: How the State Asylum Became the State Hospital 5. The State Hospital: Reform as Inertia 6. "Trying Times of Transition:" From State Hospital to Psychiatric Center 7. The Contemporary State Psychiatric Center: Up to Standards? 8. Public Policy and the Seriously Mentally Ill: The Future of the State Mental Hospital Appendix A: Data Sources and Methods Appendix B: Standards for State Mental Hospitals Bibliography Index