Mental Health Services and Community Care: A Critical History
Ian Cummins
Abstract
The volume presents a critical history of deinstitutionalisation and the subsequent policy of community care. It explores the development of the asylum regime, the challenges to it and finally the development of community care. It argues that the vision of community based mental health services has never been realized. The failings of community care in the 1990s and the media reporting of high-profile cases led to a backlash against the policy. Despite this, it has been adopted across the world and international perspectives are discussed. The links between deinstitutionalization and the expan ... More
Keywords: Deinstitutionalisation, Community care, Mental health services, The penal state
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2020 | Print ISBN-13: 9781447350590 |
| Published to Policy Press Scholarship Online: January 2021 | DOI:10.1332/policypress/9781447350590.001.0001 |
