Mental Illness and Social Workers

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The purpose of this research is to examine how social workers fit in to the U.S. mental-health system. The plan of the research will be to set forth the historical context in which U.S. community mental-health systems can be analyzed, with reference to key early figures in the whole process of shaping mental-health delivery and caregiving practices.

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"The purpose of this research is to examine how social workers fit in to the U.S. mental-health system. The plan of the research will be to set forth the historical context in which U.S. community mental-health systems can be analyzed, with reference to key early figures in the whole process of shaping mental-health delivery and caregiving practices, and then to discuss the current status, including cost-related factors, of American inpatient and outpatient community mental-health systems, as well as the role of the social worker in such systems.
To understand modern American mental-health systems, it is necessary to realize how relatively young the very concept of organized and humane mental-health treatment is in Western civilization. Dr. Benjamin Rush, one of the signers of the ..."

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