Sentences with word «deinstitutionalization»

Schizophrenia mortality rates appeared to decrease from the mid-1950s to early 1970s, perhaps due to the development of antipsychotic drugs and deinstitutionalization of persons with serious mental illness — a shift away from crowded psychiatric facilities to community - based treatments.

The bill proposes 40 access - enhancing measures, many of them connected to mental health laws, action plans and strategies that have been developed in recent years to help Quebec deal with the legal and social fallouts from deinstitutionalization.

It led to a national soul search on the subject, a broad, continuing deinstitutionalization program in New York and elsewhere, and to the benchmark federal Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act of 1980.

From the 1950s through the 1970s, the mental health care system underwent a massive deinstitutionalization, a well - intentioned plan designed to move people out of hospitals and into local communities.

By deinstitutionalization we mean not only that fewer couples ask the church to bless their unions, but that many are not even asking the state to make their families official.

In recent years, however, there has been an increase in detentions among this population, signaling a shift away from deinstitutionalization and toward incarceration to address non-criminal youth behaviors, many of which are tied to troubled home environments and unmet mental health, learning, or other needs.

At first his friends were enraged at the institution that had released him; enraged at the system of deinstitutionalization that forces so many mentally ill onto the streets to fend for themselves; enraged at society for caring too little about its helpless; enraged at Ronald Reagan as the symbol of budget cuts and the agent of bottom - line considerations.

Most are victims of the nationwide policy of deinstitutionalization that has dominated the mental - health field since the mid -»60s.

But now, within our churches and in secular society, the process of deinstitutionalization is gathering force.

Most of our state governments and the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare follow an intentional program of deinstitutionalization.

The deinstitutionalization of marriage and family has led to a new brand of coercive, state - enforced regulation of the family.

Families in our society are simultaneously undergoing both deinstitutionalization and coercive reinstitutionalization.

Rauch's fourth point is a claim that legal recognition of same - sex unions as marriages would actually serve as an impediment to the deinstitutionalization of marriage favored by those who signed «Beyond Same - Sex Marriage.»

Widespread use of newer «atypical» drugs which are less likely to affect fertility than the older «typical» antipsychotics, combined with the deinstitutionalization of psychiatric patients, is attributed to doubling the use of antipsychotics during pregnancy in the past decade, yet, clinicians have little information regarding the safety of these drugs for the developing fetus and concerns have been raised about a potential association with congenital malformations.

The deinstitutionalization of people with mental illness restored their rights, but caused plenty of problems as well

I'm currently working on a novel set in Montana that explores the deinstitutionalization of the state's developmentally disabled and mentally ill populations.

The «pedagogy of dreams» as a contribution to the deinstitutionalization of children and young people in South Brazil - Schüssler D'Aroz

I also have projects examining union formation across cohorts, the deinstitutionalization of marriage, and the role of chaos in the family.

The NCJFCJ partners with CJJ in the implementation of various programs and projects, but most notably on our Safety, Opportunity & Success (SOS) Project, helping with the identification and convening of judicial leaders on the deinstitutionalization of status offenders (DSO).

Since 1974, the Deinstitutionalization of Status Offenders (DSO) core requirement of federal Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act (JJDPA) has prohibited the incarceration of status offenders and non-delinquent youth involved with the courts.