Deinstitutionalization
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- How deinstitutionalization is affecting Ohio's prisons and jails.
- Deinstitutionalization is both a solution to the criticisms levelled at the hospital-psychiatric approach of managing persons with severe and persistent mental disorders and an extremely useful tool in the power struggle among the various stakeholders in mental health services reform.
- Another disturbing legacy of deinstitutionalization is the large number of the mentally ill in New York's jails and prisons.
- Here's the key passage:The record reflects that Washington's commitment to deinstitutionalization is as "genuine, comprehensive and reasonable" as the state's commitment in Sanchez.
- Deinstitutionalization is the process by which large numbers of patients with chronic and severe mental illness were discharged from psychiatric hospitals into the community to receive outpatient treatment.
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