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The revolution in mental-health care— A “bold new approach”?

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Further reading suggested by the author

  • The Community and the Community Mental Health Center by M. Brewster Smith and Nicholas Hobbs. (Available free from American Psychological Association, 1200 17th St. N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036.) An official “position paper” of the A.P.A., outlining desirable policies that by and large have not been followed as community mental-health centers are being established.

  • Action for Mental Health: Final Report of the Joint Commission on Mental Illness and Health (New York: Basic Books, 1961). An attack on the state mental hospital as an agency for the care of the seriously retarded. The book, however, neglects the mental-health problems of children.

  • New Careers for the Poor: The Non-Professional in Human Service by Arthur Pearl and Frank Riessman (New York: The Free Press, 1966). Suggests the employment of poor people in mental-health-related roles to bridge the communication gap between middle-class professionals and their low-income clientele.

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  • Schizophrenics in the Community: An Experimental Study in the Prevention of Hospitalization by Benjamin Pasamanick, Frank R. Scarpitti, and Simon Dinitz (New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1967). See book review on page 58.

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M. Drewster Smith is professor of psychology and director of the Institute of Human Development at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a former vice-president of the Joint Commission on Mental Illness and Health and editor of theJournal of Abnormal and Social Psychology. A task force member of the current Joint Commission on Mental Health of Children, he has recently done studies of teenage prejudice, Peace Corps volunteers, and student activism.

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Brewster Smith, M. The revolution in mental-health care— A “bold new approach”?. Trans-action 5, 19–23 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03180443

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