The first patient is admitted to the Public Hospital for Persons of Insane and Disordered Minds in Williamsburg, Virginia. Boston schoolteacher Dorothea Dix visits the East Cambridge Jail, where she ...

When a person has a mental-health crisis in America, it is almost always law enforcement—not a therapist, social worker, or psychiatrist—who responds to the 911 call. But most officers aren’t ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The president’s budget proposal includes the repeal of Medicaid’s IMD (Institutes for Medical Diseases) exclusion, a Johnson-era ...

Ronald Reagan emptied the psychiatric hospitals and Jerry Brown emptied the prisons, or so some people say. Although neither statement is completely true, there are elements of harsh reality in both.

Fred Osher is the director of Health Systems and Services Policy at the Council of State Governments Justice Center. Updated May 9, 2016, 11:54 AM The answer is not simply to build more psychiatric ...

Deinstitutionalization, the name given to the policy of moving people with serious brain disorders out of large state institutions and then permanently closing most or all of those institutions has ...

If you ask any social policy expert to describe a well-intentioned initiative that didn't work out as planned, the word “deinstitutionalization” will probably appear in her response. This conventional ...