Federal mental health policymaking: An assessment of deinstitutionalization.

Argues that significant advances in psychopharmacology and psychology have occurred in the last 3 decades and that the technologies of treating serious mental disorders have improved accordingly. The authors describe the emerging issues of efficacious and cost-effective applications of these technologies to an increasingly complex system of needs and populations, their potential role in public policy, and their relationship to recent federal policy decisions. (18 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)