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The Mental Health Professionals’ Scapegoat

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The deinstitutionalization of psychiatric patients during the past two decades has clearly had a major impact on those who care for the chronically mentally ill (APA, 1979; Bassuk & Gerson, 1978; Klerman, 1977). Especially striking is the role that the families of many of these patients have had to assume. With an estimated 54% of discharged psychiatric patients returning home, these families have had to undertake the often burdensome task of primary caretaker (APA, 1979; Carpenter, 1978; Hatfield, 1978; Hilton, 1979). For many patients and ex-patients the family is the only social network available (Mosher & Keith, 1980).

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Lewine, R.R.J. (1983). Parents. In: Sigel, I.E., Laosa, L.M. (eds) Changing Families. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-4502-2_10

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