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DOI:
10.1176/ps.43.9.867
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发表时间:
1992
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L. L. Bachrach
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作者:
L. L. Bachrach
In 1976 I wrote the first edition of Deinstitutionalization: An Analytical Revie-wandSociologicalPerspective(1), a monograph that sought to sort out and conceptualize the many issues related to implementing a new philosophy of patient care. Since then, deinstitutionalization in its various manifestations, including its relationship to homelessness among mentally ill persons, has remained my major academic focus. The problems I discussed in 1976 have not been fully resolved, and serious new issues have arisen (2). The fact that substantial benefits have also accrued to many patients does not diminish those problems. As deinstitutionalization has evolved, new concepts and practices associated with service delivery have emerged, and a growing literature continues to catalog and assess their impact. It might be said that the major purpose of this column, The Chronic Patient, is to provide a means for documenting and disseminating new patient care strategies and the concepts underlying them. Change has also affected the language associated with deinstitutionalization. Words like “outreach,”