Community care and the origins of psychiatric social work.
Psychiatric social work began in the early twentieth century as a result of a movement for community care of the mentally ill. Formerly preoccupied with institutional care of the mentally ill, psychiatrists now became interested in the control and prevention of mental illness in the community. This paper reviews the contemporary literature on early psychiatric social work. The paper then discusses the mental hygiene movement and early psychiatric social work practice. It concludes with a consideration of the changes in psychiatric social work which accompanied World War I.
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School of Social Work, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa 35487-0314, USA. PSTUART@SW.UA.EDU
D003156:Community Mental Health Services / Q000266:history*; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D012949:Social Work, Psychiatric / Q000266:history*; D014481:United States