Overview of State Hospital Systems across the States, 2023: A Prevention Over Punishment Supplement
This PDF is a supplement to our 2024 report Prevention Over Punishment: Finding the Right Balance of Civil and Forensic State Psychiatric Hospital Beds, which offers more detailed information about the state-hospital system across all 50 states and the District of Columbia. For a more comprehensive understanding of the role that state hospitals play in the national continuum of care, as well as details on methodology and data sources, we recommend reading the complete report.
In this paper, which was published in Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research, Treatment…
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People diagnosed with severe mental illnesses like schizophrenia are more likely than the general population to be victims of…
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Like any other chronic medical condition, people with severe mental illness experience symptoms that vary in severity over time….
This PDF is a supplement to our 2024 report, “Prevention Over Punishment: Finding the Right Balance of Civil and…
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The number of state psychiatric hospital beds for adults with severe mental illness has continued to decline to a…
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When someone with severe mental illness refuses to accept treatment and insists that there is nothing wrong with them,…
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The average duration of untreated psychosis is 74 weeks in the U.S. This long period of untreated psychosis has…
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Treatment Advocacy Center addresses the crisis of the 8.8 million people who suffer from severe mental illness and who…
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