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. 2012 May 1;9(2):45-47.
eCollection 2012 May.

Six decades of community psychiatry in India

R K Chadda  1
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Six decades of community psychiatry in India

R K Chadda. Int Psychiatry. .

Abstract

The community psychiatry movement started in India in the early 1950s. It has gone through different phases of development, beginning with family care of people who are mentally ill in the campus of the mental hospitals, followed by satellite clinics and a national mental health programme. Other initiatives have included the camp approach, initiatives by non-government organisations and the media, and mental health services for disaster-affected populations. The paper traces the development of community psychiatry in India over the past six decades.

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