title: Mental health organizations in transition.
abstract: Many mental health institutions are changing their traditional treatment policies and practices and their organizational structures. Literature is reviewed which provides a model for changing mental health organizations based in general systems theory. The systems organizational model has empirical support in the growing community mental health movement. The strong interaction of technological and ideological factors determining the nature of the new mental health organizations is stressed. Also considered are some of the problems facing those planning and managing changing mental health organizations.
mesh_terms: D003156:Community Mental Health Services; D006739:Hospital Administration; D006752:Hospital Planning; D006778:Hospitals, Psychiatric; D007857:Leadership; D013677:Medical Laboratory Science; D008605:Mental Health Services; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D009656:North America; D012922:Social Change; D013808:Therapeutic Community; D006113:United Kingdom