Residential care services for the people with mental illness in Turkey and social work practices in this services

The services provided by society towards individuals with mental illness have changed according to time and from the point of view of the societies. The tradition of closing mental patients to institutions has left its place to community-based services after the 1950s. However, institutional care services for individuals who can not be treated in society, have no place to go, orphaned mental illness have begun to gain importance after years of 1990s. Private residential care centers have been supported and disseminated after with the legislation enacted in the 2000s for the institutional care services in Turkey. In this direction, social workers have begun to be employed in private residential care centers. This study, was prepared in order to contribute for the literature and social work profession information about development and regulation of institutional care services in Turkey, services at institutions