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==Deinstitutionalization==
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Starting in the 1960s, there has been a worldwide trend toward moving psychiatric patients from hospital settings to less restricting settings in the community, a shift known as "deinstitutionalization". Because the shift was typically not accompanied by a commensurate development of community-based services, critics say that deinstitutionalization has led to large numbers of people who would once have been inpatients as instead being incarcerated or becoming homeless.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Dear|first1=Michael J.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GPz_AwAAQBAJ&q=Deinstitutionalization+homeless&pg=PP1|title=Landscapes of Despair: From Deinstitutionalization to Homelessness|last2=Wolch|first2=Jennifer R.|publisher=Princeton Legacy Library|year=1987|location=Princeton, NJ|isbn=9781400858965}}</ref>  In some jurisdictions, laws authorizing court-ordered outpatient treatment have been passed in an effort to compel individuals with chronic, untreated severe mental illness to take [[psychiatric medication]]  while living outside the hospital (e.g. [[Laura's Law]], [[Kendra's Law]]).<ref>{{cite web|title=Kendra's Law: Results from New York's First Ten Years with Assisted Outpatient Treatment|url=https://www.treatmentadvocacycenter.org/component/content/article/41|access-date=August 2, 2020|website=Treatment Advocacy Center}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://mentalillnesspolicy.org/wp-content/uploads/lauraslawguidetac2009.pdf|title=A Guide to Laura's Law: California's Law for Assisted Outpatient Treatment|publisher=The California Treatment Advocacy Coalition & The Treatment Advocacy Center|year=2009}}</ref>

In a study of 269 patients from [[Vermont State Hospital]] done by Courtenay M. Harding and associates, about two-thirds of the ex-patients did well after deinstitutionalization.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Harding |first1=C.M. |last2=Brooks |first2=G.W. |last3=Ashikaga |first3=T. |last4=Strauss |first4=J.S. |last5=Breier |first5=A. |date=June 1987 |title=The Vermont longitudinal study of persons with severe mental illness, I: Methodology, study sample, and overall status 32 years later |journal=American Journal of Psychiatry |volume=144 |issue=6 |pages=718–26 |doi=10.1176/ajp.144.6.718 |pmid=3591991 }}</ref>