Over the last three decades, the state mental hospital system has undergone major transformations as a result of changes in responsibility, funding, and programming for inpatient services. This article examines the budgetary process and decision making for state expenditures on mental health. Implications of recent and proposed policy changes at the federal level are examined in the context of current state mental health expenditures.
(Summer 1983)
Administration in Mental Health
1983
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2FBF00823106