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Both modern computer technology and the current community oriented era of mental health programs developed into important phenomena in the 1950s. The availability of the new technology at the beginning of a period of fundamental reform in mental health raised high hopes for the positive support information technology could contribute to the mental health program reform movement. Over the past thirty years, computer technology has developed and flourished far beyond anyone's greatest expectations. At the same time, while many valuable and interesting mental health computer applications have been produced, the impact of the computer on the overall development and management of mental health services has been limited. Another major wave of reform, this time in terms of funding patterns, is now on the horizon for mental health. It would appear that the impact of computer in the management of future mental health programs could be either very positive or very negative, depending on the management tools and the... |
