mental health centers

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Mental health centers are facilities that provide psychiatric and psychological services to a community, typically offering outpatient treatment, counseling, crisis intervention, and sometimes substance abuse programs.

They emerged in the mid-20th century as alternatives to long-term institutionalization, emphasizing treatment closer to home: The county mental health center offers sliding-scale fees.

Also called community mental health centers.

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