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Handbook on Mental Health Policy in the United States
David A. Rochefort
Foreword by Senator Edward M. Kennedy
Book Code: RHM/
ISBN: 0-313-25009-X
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-25009-5
563 pages, figures, tables
Greenwood Press
Publication: 10/24/1989
List Price: $115.00 (UK Sterling Price: £65.00)
Availability: Print on demand
Media Type: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects: Reviews:
  • Covers the historical, policy and administrative aspects of public mental health care. Some chapters focus on specific topics, such as planning, policy initiation, evaluation, residential care, the public mental hospital, nursing homes, insurance, legal issues, prevention, and the Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration block grant. Other chapters discuss special populations (e.g., the homeless, elderly, chronic mentally ill, substance abusers, minorities). Authorship is inter-disciplinary. There are author and subject indexes and a guide to sources. An important addition to academic libraries serving graduate or upper-division undergraduate programs in public administration, health services, community psychology, or public health; and also potentially relevant to students in psychiatry, clinical psychology, social work, nursing, epidemiology, biomedical ethics, and law.
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Description: As the social and economic costs associated with mental disorders continue to rise, policymakers and mental health administrators are faced with dwindling budgets and the need for expanded and improved services. This ambitious new work offers a thorough examination of these difficult policy issues, together with studies of the population groups affected and the programs and facilities designed to serve them. Written by twenty-nine specialists in the field, it provides analyses of recent empirical findings and a thoughtful review of the challenges that lie ahead. The first two chapters examine central policy concerns and the elements that make up the mental health service system. Epidemiological analyses focus on problem populations such as the chronically mentally ill, the elderly, children, minorities, and substance abusers. Mental health policy development is next explored. Specific topics covered include the deinstitutionalization of the mentally ill, the creation of community mental health programs, the impact of the Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Block Grant, and the political process of mental health policymaking. The next several chapters look at the record of the community mental health movement, including community residential care, the problem of homelessness, and public mental hospital's changing role. Financial, legal, administrative, and planning issues are also considered. The volume concludes with a discussion of possible future trends in mental health policymaking and administration. An authoritative resource for mental health and human service professionals as well as students and academics in these fields, this book is appropriate for academic, professional, public agency, and large public libraries.
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword by Senator Edward M. Kennedy
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Mental Illness and Mental Health as Public Policy Concerns
  • The Contemporary Mental Health System: Facilities, Services, Personnel, and Finances
  • Epidemiologic Analysis of Mental Health Problems
  • Psychiatric Epidemiology: An Overview of Methods and Findings
  • Special Problem Populations: The Chronically Mentally Ill, Elderly, Children, Minorities, and Substance Abusers
  • Mental Health Policy Development
  • From the Asylum to the Community in U.S. Mental Health Care: A Historical Overview
  • A National Community Mental Health Program: Policy Initiation and Progress
  • The Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Block Grant: Origins, Design, and Impact
  • Mental Health Policymaking in the United States: Patterns, Process, and Structures
  • Evaluating the Community Mental Health Movement
  • An Evaluative Overview of the Community Mental Health Centers Program
  • Community Residential Care
  • Nursing Homes as Community Mental Health Facilities
  • Homelessness as a Public Mental Health Problem
  • The Changing Role of the Public Mental Hospital
  • Financing, Legal, and Service System Issues
  • Mental Health Insurance
  • Legal Issues in Mental Health Care: Current Perspectives
  • Administrative and Service Provision Issues
  • Preventive Services in Mental Health
  • Planning for Mental Health Services
  • Needs Assessment Techniques
  • Mental Health System Strategic Planning
  • Enduring Problems and Opportunities
  • Toward the Year 2000 in U.S. Mental Health Policymaking and Administration
  • A Guide to Sources
  • Name Index
  • Subject Index
LC Card Number: 88-32052
LCC Class: RA790
Dewey Class: 362.2
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