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Mental Health In The 1960s

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Today, mental health is recognized and treated, for a lot of people. But, there are a lot of people with severe mental health disorders that are not aware, refuse to get treated, or they simply do not know how to get help and are homeless because of it. Human service workers have been working to help individuals and grow since the 1500s and have vastly improved and understand more about mental illness and how it causes people to fail in life financially and in relationships throughout history. In the 1960s there was a human services movement that had much growth, an increase of training programs, and larger size of mental health delivery systems, credentialing, and development (Woodside & McClam, 2015). It eventually became more well-established
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