faced many challenges beginning around 1965, including the challenge to make psychology more inclusive of traditionally underrepresented groups. The larger context of social unrest and public and political focus on social problems framed these challenges. This article describes the events that led to the establishment of the Board of Social and Ethical Responsibility for Psychology in 1972 and highlights the role of Kenneth B. Clark in those events. As you know, the Association is faced with many complex problems with many voices, some of them strident and impatient, proposing solutions. You will be able to contribute much to our task of finding sensible solutions. (Hobbs, 1965a, p. 1) Editor's note. This History of Psychology section was developed by Wade E. Pickren.
Over the past several years, the long-term or seriously mentally ill have been rediscovered, I believe, primarily for two reasons: (a) the failure of a nationwide effort to deinstitutionalize the mentally ill by discharging them from state psychiatric hospitals and moving them into communities, and (b) the discovery by families of the mentally ill, and in some instances patients themselves, of the power of uniting and forming coalitions able to influence legislative and executive agendas.Deinstitutionalization brought patients from outof-the-way psychiatric hospitals to the main streets of towns and cities, and displayed the failure of that policy for all to see. Familyiconsumer advocacy is causing states, and in some instances the federal government, to appropriate and or reallocate resources to provide programs capable of evaluating, treating, or rehabilitating seriously mentally ill persons.
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