Eclipse of the State Mental Hospital

Policy, Stigma, and Organization

AvGeorge W. Dowdall

Häftad, Engelska, 1996

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Examines the origins, recent history, and future of state hospitals.State hospitals still account for the majority of the state dollars spent on mental health care across the nation. Why do state hospitals persist and expand despite public scandal and professional disapproval? What role does the state mental hospital play in the current system of care for the seriously mentally ill? What role should it play, and at what cost? Dowdall explores recent efforts, successful and unsuccessful, to meet the increasingly elaborate standards imposed from without on the contemporary state mental hospital, and the impact of these efforts on the quality of care provided to its patients.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:1996-04-11
Mått:151 x 229 x 14 mm
Vikt:386 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:SUNY series in the Sociology of Work and Organizations
Antal sidor:262
Förlag:State University of New York Press
ISBN:9780791428962

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Psykisk hälsovård inom Medicin

Mer om författaren

George W. Dowdall is Professor of Sociology, St. Joseph's University and Adjunct Professor of Community Health, Brown University School of Medicine.

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"The use of data to address many of the questions raised is most innovative. I believe this book would make a good contribution to the study of mental health treatment and policy." — Clifford L. Broman, Michigan State University

Innehållsförteckning

List of Figures List of Tables Acknowledgments Preface 1. State Mental Hospitals as the Organizaitonal Pivot of Policy 2. The Natural History of an Organizational Form: The State Mental Hospital 3. "A Most Noble Charity": The Birth of a State Asylum 4. Organizational Development: How the State Asylum Became the State Hospital 5. The State Hospital: Reform as Inertia 6. "Trying Times of Transition:" From State Hospital to Psychiatric Center 7. The Contemporary State Psychiatric Center: Up to Standards? 8. Public Policy and the Seriously Mentally Ill: The Future of the State Mental Hospital Appendix A: Data Sources and Methods Appendix B: Standards for State Mental Hospitals Bibliography Index