title: Change in the mental health field?
abstract: An analysis of the current roles of the federally funded community mental health center and the public mental hospital suggests that despite the rhetoric about a community mental health revolution, the mental field has yet to undergo significant change. Ideological, political, economic, and structural barriers-characteristics of the field itself-impede such change outside, inside, and across the centers and hospitals. Recent court decisions on patients' rights, however, have the potential for moving the field into a period where "bold new action" actually can occur.
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D003156:Community Mental Health Services; D005380:Financing, Government; D006040:Goals; D006760:Hospitalization; D006778:Hospitals, Psychiatric; D006801:Humans; D007878:Legislation as Topic; D008134:Long-Term Care; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000534:rehabilitation; D010344:Patient Advocacy; D014481:United States