Author: Massachusetts. Department of Mental DiseasesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Annual Report of the Trustees of the Boston Psychopathic Hospital for the Year Ending November 30
Author: Massachusetts. Department of Mental DiseasesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Annual Report of the Trustees of the Boston Psychopathic Hospital for the Year Ending ...
Author: Boston State Hospital. Psychopathic DepartmentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Psychiatry
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Annual Report of the Trustees of the Boston State Hospital, for the Year Ending ....
Author: Boston State HospitalPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 848
Book Description
Annual Report of the Trustees of the Boston State Hospital, for the Year Ending ...
Author: Boston State HospitalPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
Monthly Check-list of State Publications
Author: Library of Congress. Division of DocumentsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : State government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 638
Book Description
Annual Report of the Trustees of the Boston State Hospital, for the Year Ending
Author: Boston Massachusetts. Sate hospitalPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 884
Book Description
Monthly Checklist of State Publications
Author: Library of Congress. Exchange and Gift DivisionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : State government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 650
Book Description
June and Dec. issues contain listings of periodicals.
Conscience and Convenience
Author: David J. RothmanPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351526545
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 499
Book Description
Conscience and Convenience was quickly recognized for its masterly depiction and interpretation of a major period of reform history. This history begins in a social context in which treatment and rehabilitation were emerging as predominant after America's prisons and asylums had been broadly acknowledged to be little more than embarrassing failures. The resulting progressive agenda was evident: to develop new, more humane and effective strategies for the criminal, delinquent, and mentally ill. The results, as Rothman documents, did not turn out as reformers had planned. For adult criminal offenders, such individual treatment could be accomplished only through the provision of broad discretionary authority, whereby choices could be made between probation, parole, indeterminate sentencing, and, as a measure of last resort, incarceration in totally redesigned prisons. For delinquents, the juvenile court served as a surrogate parent and accelerated and intensified individual treatment by providing for a series of community-based individual and family services, with the newly designed, school-like reformatories being used for only the most intractable cases. For the mentally ill, psychiatrists chose between outpatient treatments, short-term intensive care, or as last resort, long-term care in mental hospitals with new cottage and family-like arrangements. Rothman shows the consequences of these reforms as unmitigated disasters. Despite benevolent intentions, the actual outcome of reform efforts was to take the earlier failures of prisons and asylums to new, more ominous heights. In this updated edition, Rothman chronicles and examines incarceration of the criminal, the deviant, and the dependent in U.S. society, with a focus on how and why these methods have persisted and expanded for over a century and a half despite longstanding evidence of their failures and abuses.
Report
Author: Worcester State HospitalPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Mental Health Care and Social Policy
Author: Phil BrownPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000574040
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
Originally published in 1985, at a time when the previous 2 decades had witnessed dramatic changes in the US mental health system. These included the decline of the state mental hospital, the birth of the community mental health center and the expansion of psychiatric services in general hospitals. The inevitable results of the changes were the creation of a huge nursing home population of the chronically mentally ill, and the multiplication of urban ‘street people’. Mental health care is uncoordinated and underfunded. The historical roots of these problems are examined in this book which is designed both as a professional reference volume and as a text for students in the sociology of mental health and illness. The contributors are drawn from diverse fields, including sociology, psychiatry, psychology, epidemiology and social history.