In his vision for the mental hygiene movement, he advocated for community-based services to help people develop skills to cope with the demands of everyday living.

He was involved with the Eugenics Records Office, which he viewed as a natural extension of the mental hygiene movement which he helped to create.

In the 1920s, the mental hygiene movement was concerned with treating nervous disorders and behavioral problems in difficult children.

This was known as the "mental hygiene movement".

The social hygiene movement represented a rationalized, professionalized version of the earlier social purity movement.

In the 1920s-30s, the German racial hygiene movement embraced Grant's Nordic theory.

Early in the 20th century in the United States, a mental hygiene movement developed, aiming to prevent mental disorders.

Inge was important as the type of agent who linked the disparate cultures and intellectual milieus which formed the backbone of the social hygiene movement.

But it was also the result of the growing hegemony of the social hygiene movement.

Clifford Whittingham Beers (30 March 1876 - 9 July 1943) was the founder of the American mental hygiene movement.