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Readmissions of long-stay psychiatric patients to the acute services from hostels in the community

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Rosie Shepperd*
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Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Oxford Rotation, Paxton House, 57 Bath Road, Reading, Berkshire
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The asylum movement was developed in the 19th century to provide care and cure for people with mental disorders. In the 20th century the old vision of asylum was abandoned, but no new alternative vision of community mental health care has taken its place. A divide between acute psychiatric services and provision for the social aspects of care has been described by Murphy (1991).

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