From Poorhouses to Homelessness Policy Analysis and Mental Health Care, Second Edition

Subjects:

• Political Science » Public Policy
• Political Science » Public Administration
• Health/Medicine » Public Health
• Sociology » Class Structure

Reviews:

• A substantial addition to the mental health policy literature. To simply point out its engaging writing style and its thorough, scholarly coverage of the major issues in mental health policy would ignore its more important contributions. Rochefort brings both rigor and creativity to his coverage and synthesis of diverse perspectives on the major trends in mental health policy, providing a theoretical base, an international perspective, and sufficient detail to make it a key text for graduate and undergraduate students of public policy and human services.
  —Health Affairs
• ...cool, authoritative, and remarkably well-documented...an indispensable resource for those who wish to get the story straight about the major issues in our complicated field.
  —American Journal of Psychiatry (on the First Edition)
• Thoughtful analyses of aspects of mental health policy by a scholar whose perspective should not be ignored.
  —Contemporary Psychology (on the First Edition)
• The volume has much of value for students of mental health policy, agency managers, and service providers of all kinds. It fills a gap in the literature and is a most welcome addition to the field.
  —Psychiatric Services (on the First Edition)
• This is the first [book dealing with the evolution and transformation of the mental health system] to be written by a political scientist and to be specifically concerned with the process of policy formulation.
  —Journal of Public Health Policy (on the First Edition)
• This work is adequate as a textbook for undergradute courses related to mental health policy....The greatest value of this book is that it provides a competent and accurate summary of where things stand with mental health policy.
  —The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
• This second edition may be of particular interest to policy makers in the mental health field, as well as to students of american social welfare policy and public administration in general.
  —Administration and Policy in Mental Health

Table of Contents:

• Foreword by David Mechanic
• Preface to the Second Edition
• Preface to the First Edition
• Introduction
• Approaching Mental Health Policy Analysis
• Historical Evolution of Mental Health Policy
• U.S. Mental Health Care: The First Three Centuries
• The Community Mental Health Revolution
• Federal Retrenchment, Block Grants, and State Control
• Theoretical and Political Perspectives
• Mental Health Policymaking Cycles and Their Causes
• Political Factors in Mental Health Policymaking and Service Delivery
• Contemporary Policy Trends and Issues
• The Challenge of Coordination
• Mayor Koch, Joyce Brown, and New York City's Homeless Mentally Ill: A Case Study
• Canadian Mental Health Services: The View from Nova Scotia
• Mental Health Care and National Health Policy Reform
• Deinstitutionalization: Practice and Promise
• Conclusion
• A System in Flux
• Bibliography
• Author Index
• Subject Index