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Conceptual Innovations

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Abstract

The concepts of dehospitalisation, deinstitutionalisation and demarginalisation that underlie the policies outlined in Chapter 1 were initially developed in the United States and Western Europe during the 1960s. New concepts and theoretical frameworks that have emerged since the beginning of the 1980s in the countries discussed below include:

  • continued care clients;

  • normalisation and social role valorisation;

  • deconstruction of the classical psychiatric diagnostic system (schizophrenia, expressed emotions, challenging behaviour, accepting voices);

  • sexual abuse as an everyday phenomenon;

  • the emergence of new stakeholders: users and relatives as reactive and proactive actors.

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Ramon, S. (1996). Conceptual Innovations. In: Mental Health in Europe. Issues in Mental Health. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-24811-7_4

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