The Lost and Forgotten: A Comprehensive Examination of Outpatient Drop-Out From the Maimonides Community Mental Health Center
Abstract
The movement is that of the Comprehensive Community Mental Health Services Program, and when first initiated, through federal legislation of 1963, (U.S. Congress, 1964) it was heralded as a profound revolution designed to transform the custodial, clinical model of service delivery to a new and more promising public health, community-oriented model. The excerpts above and below from a New York Times Magazine article (Samuels, 1968) eloquently described how the revolutionary goals and philosophy of the Community Mental Health movement, as a whole, were materialized in the architecture and design of one of the more than two-hundred centers now in operation.
Subject Area
Social work|Public health
Recommended Citation
Saal, Robert C, "The Lost and Forgotten: A Comprehensive Examination of Outpatient Drop-Out From the Maimonides Community Mental Health Center" (1971). ETD Collection for Fordham University. AAI31189761.
https://research.library.fordham.edu/dissertations/AAI31189761
