In the 1960s, _____-a movement to change the setting of treatment from the state mental hospital to the community-began.

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Deinstitutionalization refers to the policy of moving severely mentally ill people out of large state institutions and then closing part or all of those institutions; it was a major movement in the 1960s aimed at treating mentally ill patients in community-based settings rather than in large, impersonal, and often distant psychiatric hospitals.

In the 1960s, _____-A Movement to Change the Setting of Treatment