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Mental Health Policy and Practice Today.
The dynamic nature of mental health practice today is reflected in this informative and stimulating resource. The first section overviews societal and cost issues related to mental health problems. The contributors then focus on the expanding base of knowledge in the mental health field, such as tha...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Thousand Oaks :
SAGE Publications,
1997.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.