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MICHIGAN COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH State Mental Hospitals once typified the approach to psychiatric care. But advances in drug therapy and maturing treatment philosophies emptied the nation's "insane asylums" decades ago. The Traverse City State Hospital -- to offer a symbolic local example -- closed in 1989 after 100 years' psychiatric service to reopen in 2005 as an upscale residential/commercial community. Supplanting the institutional icons of the One-Flew-Over-the-Cuckoo's-Nest era, community mental health (CMH) agencies model new definitions of "recovery." Where once clinicians imposed "cures" on their patients, today's CMH professionals now assist clients who articulate and achieve their own personal life goals. |
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Relying primarily on the success stories of its
clients, a half-hour documentary will profile the West Michigan Community Mental Health
System as an example of current therapy trends, paying special attention to
A ten-minute cut of the film will play continuously in CMH waiting areas as an outcomes orientation.
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