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CMHS

Specialty Definition: Center for Mental Health Services

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

The Center for Mental Health Services is a US government-supported group. It describes its role as:

"CMHS leads Federal efforts to treat mental illnesses by promoting mental health and by preventing the development or worsening of mental illness when possible. Congress created CMHS to bring new hope to adults who have serious mental illnesses and to children with serious emotional disorders".

See also: anti-psychiatry, E. Fuller Torrey

External Links

• The Center for Mental Health Services

  Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Center for Mental Health Services."

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