Introduction of a Part-Time Hospitalization Program into an Acute Psychiatric-Treatment Service

Abstract

DAY care is at the present time a most interesting movement in mental health. It appears to be ever increasing in momentum both in this country and abroad, and it portends dramatic change in the traditional relations between the mental hospital, its patients and the community. Although the day-care movement is not new, its first practical application having taken place as early as 1933,¹ only during the last decade and a half has it seemed to catch fire. Similarly, day care at the Massachusetts Mental Health Center is not new; a much broadened application of the concept, however, has only . . .