Description
Community mental health centers led the transformation from custodial state mental hospital to community-based care. Abby?s Deal illuminates the people, the issues, and the work at historic Concord?s CMHC, from the 1960s to the present. Ideas, funding, politics, and people take their places in this instructive, sometimes personal account. This case history, based on Dr. Merrifield?s experience as Director of Inpatient Services at the CMHC, many interviews, and thoughtful research, asks, ?Did this CMHC fail??Advance praise for Abby?s Deal:?This is the book for anyone interested in the community mental health movement? Dr. Merrifield chronicles the hopes and struggles of the early pioneers of providing community services.??Marylou Sudders, former Commissioner of Mental Health, MassachusettsPoints of interest: Detailed case history 14 appendices, primary research with more than 40 interviews conducted.
