Beginning in the 1950s,most of the mental health hospitals in the United States were closed,and mentally ill individuals were returned to the community.The process of closing mental hospitals and returning the mentally ill to the community is called:

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The process of closing mental hospitals and returning the mentally ill to the community is called deinstitutionalization. This was a major shift in the treatment of the mentally ill that aimed to provide more personalized and community-based care, as opposed to the institutionalization of the past.

Beginning in the 1950s,most of the Mental Health Hospitals in the United