Care and Treatment of the Mentally Ill in the United States

Historical Developments and Reforms

Datos Bibliográficos

ID9761979
AutoresJoseph P Morrissey, J Morrissey (0000-0001-6289-9224, autor de correspondencia), Howard H Goldman (0000-0002-7899-4936)
Año1986
Volumen484
Número1
Páginas12-27
Fecha de publicación1986-03-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0002-7162 • E-ISSN: 1552-3349
EditorialSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0002716286484001002
PMID10300755
OpenAlexW2033498629
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas9
Referencias citadas30

Three major cycles of reform in public mental health care in the United States—the moral treatment, mental hygiene, and community mental health movements—are described as a basis for assessing the shifting boundaries between the mental health, social welfare, and criminal justice systems. Historical forces that led to the transinstitutionalization of the mentally ill from almshouses to the state mental hospitals in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries have now been reversed in the aftermath of recent deinstitutionalization policies. Evidence is suggestive that the mentally ill are also being caught up in the criminal justice system, a circumstance reminiscent of pre-asylum conditions in the early nineteenth century. These trends shape the current mental health service delivery system and the agenda for policy-relevant research on issues involving the legal and mental health fields

Criminal justice · Criminology · Economic Justice · Mental health · Mental health law · Mental illness · Mentally ill · Political science · Psychiatry · State (computer science · Healthcare Decision-Making and Restraints · Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices · Law · Psychology · Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending