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Is the Community Ready?

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State Mental Hospitals

Part of the book series: Current Topics in Mental Health ((CTMH))

Abstract

The myriad of mental hospitals which blight our continent should be dismantled and could be within ten years. The know-how to accomplish this has been at hand for at least as long. Institutional treatment has persisted not out of necessity but because of the interplay of an irrational ideology, misallocation of resources, ignorance of proven techniques, and local fears of the economic consequences of closing hospitals.

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  1. Eleanor Roosevelt Developmental Services, Schenectady, New York, 12304, USA

    Hugh G. Lafave & Richard W. Woodhouse

  2. Albany Medical College, Union University, Schenectady, New York, 12308, USA

    Frederic Grunberg

  3. Regis College, Weston, Massachusett, 02193, USA

    Leo Barrington

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  1. Southeastern University, Washington, D.C., USA

    Paul I. Ahmed

  2. Plog Research, Inc., Reseda (Los Angeles), California, USA

    Stanley C. Plog

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Lafave, H.G., Grunberg, F., Woodhouse, R.W., Barrington, L. (1976). Is the Community Ready?. In: Ahmed, P.I., Plog, S.C. (eds) State Mental Hospitals. Current Topics in Mental Health. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-4265-6_12

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