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How can the effects of de-institutionalization be seen today?

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This solution is a discussion of the effects of de-institutionalizing mental health patients. The solution has 224 words and discusses several effects of the process.

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De-institutionalization is known as a process whereby state hospitals released their mentally ill patients into the community for care in the 1950s. Deinstitutionalization occurred as a result of several factors: a. community mental health was advocating the importance of patients being treated in their communities with added family support, b. legislatures ...

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