Inpatient treatment of severe mental disorders

What will be an ideal response?


-in the 1960s the US underwent a process of deinstitutionalization with regards to mental health care
-populations in mental hospitalized had increased steadily to this point leading to hospitals which functioned more as warehouses than treatment facilities
-the closure of many of these facilities was made possible by the introduction of antipsychotics
-along with the closure of many hospitals, the promise was offered to open community-based treatment centers

Psychology

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What will be an ideal response?

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