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Long-term Psychiatric Patients in the Community

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

K. Jones ,
M. Robinson  and
M. Goughtlev
K. Jones*
Affiliation:
Professor of Social Policy, University of York, Heslington, York YO1 5DD
M. Robinson
Affiliation:
Principal Lecturer in Occupational Therapy, Newcastle-upon- Tyne Polytechnic
M. Goughtlev
Affiliation:
Senior Lecturer in Social Work, Humberside College of Higher Education
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The reduction of mental hospital populations in Britain and the United States has generated a considerable amount of literature on policy, but detailed studies of the effects on patients and the conditions under which they live after discharge are rare. In the United States, a National Institute of Mental Health review of the literature commented that “the question of what actually happens to patients who leave mental hospitals and re-enter the community is largely unanswered” (Bachrach, 1976).

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 149 , Issue 5 , November 1986 , pp. 537 - 540
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Copyright © 1986 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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