From Public Service to Private Practice: The Collapse of the Social Work Profession
Mad in America
MARCH 11, 2025
The social services that remain government-funded are often outsourced to private entities. Around this time there was a simultaneous increase of markets for private practice psychotherapy that catered to mostly middle to upper-class patients. During this market-driven transition, deinstitutionalization (i.e. What is going on here?
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