Is Deinstitutionalization a ‘Failed Experiment’? The Ethics of Re-institutionalization
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For the last 40 years British Columbia has pursued a general policy of deinstitutionalizing patients from its one large psychiatric hospital, Riverview Hospital (RVH), to a variety of alternative, community-based living and care-giving arrangements. Th is policy has not unfolded in a systematic, linear fashion, but rather it has been punctuated by interruptions and delays as policy makers and mental health care managers have tried to balance public fears and misperceptions that mental illnesses are linked to violence and the growth in homelessness, with the need to provide shelter and treatment to people with mental illnesses while maintaining their civil liberties.
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