Mental health policy and practice today / Ted R. Watkins, James W. Callicutt, editors.
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Thousand Oaks, Calif. :
Sage Publications,
[1997]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction. Overview of the field of mental health
- Institutional and community approaches to the provision of mental health services
- Political aspects of mental health treatment
- The impact of the courts on mental health policy and services
- Personnel: the professionals and their preparation
- The expanding base of knowledge in mental health. Neuroscientific research in mental health
- Research into social factors in mental illness
- Psychoeducation: a contemporary approach
- Self-help and advocacy groups in mental health
- Mental health services to special populations. Mental health services to immigrants and refugees
- Current perspectives on the homeless mentally ill
- Services to the severely and persistently mentally ill
- Mental health services to Americas's veterans
- Mental health services to minority groups of color
- Women as mental health service recipients and providers
- Treatment of children and adolescents: inpatient and outpatient mental health issues
- Mental health services to older adults
- The state of mental health services to criminal offenders
- Mental health services to substances abusers
- Implications for the 21st century. The influence of technology on mental health services
- Mental health service delivery in the age of managed care
- Looking ahead: issues to be resolved.