Describe the mental hygiene movement. When did it occur, and what did it advocate?

What will be an ideal response?


It strived to reform institutional care, establish child guidance clinics (1921), and educate the public about mental health. The movement promoted the idea that government was responsible for mental health and people with deficits and played a significant role in organizing mental health care for the military in both World Wars. After the World Wars, mental health professionals garnered better publicity for mental health, and in return more funding was allocated to mental health care. After 1947, the mental hygiene movement supported community mental health centers' behavioral-scientific and collective approach. These centers were intended to treat people and change society.

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