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Field weighs in on Trump's call to bring back mental health institutions
Author(s) -
Canady Valerie A.
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
mental health weekly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7583
pISSN - 1058-1103
DOI - 10.1002/mhw.32032
Subject(s) - mental health , center (category theory) , field (mathematics) , political science , public administration , psychology , psychiatry , chemistry , mathematics , pure mathematics , crystallography
More than 50 years ago, President John F. Kennedy signed the Community Mental Health Centers Act of 1963, which provided $150 million for new mental health center programs and a reform of this country's mental health system. People were no longer confined to institutions, and programs were available for them to be a part of the community.