Caring for patients with mental illness socw 8205 wk6 discussion | SOCW 8205 – Medical Social Work II | Walden University
Caring for Patients with Mental Illness Deinstitutionalization, a multi-stage process, resulted from a shift in policy. Deinstitutionalization allowed individuals with chronic, severe mental illness to move out of state mental hospitals into community-based settings. Between 1955 and 1980, the resident population of state hospitals dropped from 559,000 to 154,000 in the United States (Koyanagi, 2007). By 1990, state hospitals began closing completely throughout the […]