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Author : Canadian Mental Health Association. B.C. Division,Patricia J. Wheeler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:28025316
Author : Andrew L. Selig
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Medical
ISBN : UOM:39015016164926
Author : Gordon P. Holleb,Walter H. Abrams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Community mental health services
ISBN : UOM:39015057713508
Author : Geoffrey Nelson,Bret Kloos,Jose Ornelas
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2014-08-13
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780199362431
Mental health practices and programs around the world face growing criticism from policymakers, consumers, and service providers for being ineffective, overly reliant on treatment by professionals, and overly focused on symptoms. Many have called for new paradigms of mental health and new practices that can better support recovery, community integration, and adaptive functioning for persons diagnosed with psychiatric disabilities. While there has recently been much discourse about transformation and recovery, there has yet to be a critical and systematic review that unpacks the concept of mental health systems transformation or that examines strategies for how to create transformative change in mental health. Community Psychology and Community Mental Health provides empirical justification and a conceptual foundation for transformative change in mental health, based on community psychology values and principles of ecology, collaboration, empowerment, and social justice. Chapters provide strategies for making changes at the level of society, policy, organizations, community settings, and mental health practices. The editors and authors draw from experience in different countries in recognition of the need to tailor change strategies to different contexts. The common experiences of the international perspectives represented underscore the importance and the need for a new paradigm while demonstrating that there are many alternatives and opportunities for pursuing transformative change. This book will be of interest to community mental health professionals, researchers, and students, as well as policymakers, administrators, and those with lived experience of mental health issues.
Author : Graham Thornicroft
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2011-08-18
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780199565498
Community mental health care has evolved as a discipline over the past 50 years, and within the past 20 years, there have been major developments across the world. The Oxford Textbook of Community Mental Health is the most comprehensive and authoritative review published in the field, written by an international and interdisciplinary team.
Author : George W. Fairweather,David H. Sanders,David L. Cressler,Hugo Maynard
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-12
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781351527378
"Community Life for the Mentally Ill" presents a social innovative experiment aimed at providing new and more participating social positions in American society for mental patients. It presents the events that occurred when a courageous group of former chronic mental patients abruptly left a hospital and established their own autonomous sub-society in a large, metropolitan area.In order to complete this experiment, the patients created a small society in the community where discharged patients could live and work. Others evaluated the effects of the newly created society upon the behavior and perceptions of its members, which is also presented here. Both the descriptive and comparative aspects of this study are presented as they occurred in real life. The book is concerned with the medical, economic, sociological, and psychological facets of these former patients' daily lives. The effects of this small society upon the neighborhood and city in which it was located, as well as its effects upon professional persons, are richly explored.Clearly defining a radical departure from standard methods for treating the mentally ill, the authors conclude that such an autonomous society can thrive in the appropriate setting; the ex-patient's chances of employment are increased and the chance of recidivism are reduced; the member's self-esteem is enhanced; treatment costs are greatly reduced; the community adjustment of all members is increased, especially among those who have been hospitalized for a long period. With new guidelines for identifying danger zones in urban settings, this becomes a critical work.
Author : Geoffrey Brian Nelson,Bret Kloos,Jose Ornelas
Publisher : Advances in Community Psycholo
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780199362424
Provides empirical justification and a conceptual foundation for transformative change in mental health, based on community psychology values and principles of ecology, collaboration, empowerment and social justice.
Author : Michele P. Bratina
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-08
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781000624151
In this book author Michele P. Bratina demonstrates how the Sequential Intercept Model (SIM) supports integration of the U.S. healthcare and justice systems to offer more positive outcomes for offenders with mental illness. The book describes a criminal justice–mental health nexus that touches every population—juvenile and adult male and female offenders, probationers and parolees, the aging adult prison population, and victims of crime. In the United States today, the criminal justice system functions as a mental health provider, but at great cost to society. The author summarizes the historical roots of this crisis and provides an overview of mental illness and symptoms, using graphics, case studies, and spotlight features to illustrate the most pressing issues encountered by justice and behavioral health professionals and the populations they serve. Forensic Mental Health takes a multidisciplinary approach, addressing social work, psychology, counseling, and special education, and covers developments such as case law related to the right to treatment and trauma-informed care. Designed for advanced undergraduates, this text also serves as a training resource for practitioners working with the many affected justice-involved individuals with mental illness and co-occurring substance use disorders, including juveniles and veterans.
Author : Ronald Roesch,Alana N. Cook
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-18
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317239192
Handbook of Forensic Mental Health Services focuses on assessment, treatment, and policy issues regarding juveniles and adults in the criminal and civil systems. Uniquely, this volume is designed for professionals who deliver mental health services, rather than researchers. Just like its parent series, its goal revolves around improving the quality of mental health care services in forensic settings. It achieves this by integrating the findings related to clinical practice, administration, and policy from trends and best practice internationally that mental health professionals can implement.
Author : William G. Hollister,J. Wilbert Edgerton,Rebecca H. Hunter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 080784134X
Alternative Services in Community Mental Health: Programs and Processes
Author : Judi Chamberlin
Publisher : Dutton Adult
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Medical
ISBN : UOM:39015066076475
This is a book about psychiatry and alternatives to it, written from a patient's point of view. For too long, mental patients have been faceless, voiceless people. We have been thought of, at worst, as subhuman monsters, or, at best, as pathetic cripples, who might be able to hold down menial jobs and eke out meagre existences, given constant professional support. Not only have others thought of us in this stereotyped way, we have believed it of ourselves. It is only in this decade, with the emergence and growth of the mental patients' liberation movement, that we ex-patients have begun to shake off this distorted image and to see ourselves for what we are- a diverse group of people, with strengths and weaknesses, abilities and needs, and ideas of our own. Our ideas about our "care" and "treatment" at the hands of psychiatry, about the nature of "mental illness," and about new and better ways to deal with (and truly to help) people undergoing emotional crises differ drastically from those of mental health professionals.
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Human Resources. Subcommittee on Health and Scientific Research
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Community mental health services
ISBN : PURD:32754076780117
Author : John A. Talbott
Publisher : Elsevier Health Sciences
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-05
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780323089760
The Year Book of Psychiatry and Applied Mental Health brings you abstracts of the articles that reported the year's breakthrough developments in psychiatry and mental health, carefully selected from more than 300 journals worldwide. Expert commentaries evaluate the clinical importance of each article and discuss its application to your practice. There's no faster or easier way to stay informed! Annual topics feature the latest information on biological psychiatry, alcohol and substance-related disorders, psychiatry and the law, psychotherapy, and clinical psychiatry.
Author : James G. Baker,Sarah E. Baker
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-07
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780190907921
Physicians who choose to serve in public-sector mental healthcare settings and physicians-in-training assigned to public-sector mental health clinics may not be fully prepared for the many roles of the public and community psychiatrist. Public and Community Psychiatry is a concise guide for the resident and early-career psychiatrist called upon to serve in the roles of public-sector clinician, team member, advocate, administrator, and academician. Each chapter includes a concise description of these various roles and responsibilities and offers engaging examples of the public psychiatrist at work, as well as case-based problems typical of those faced by the public psychiatrist. Each chapter also features works of art and literature, usually from the public domain, in order to incorporate the core strengths of medical humanities into the dialogue of public-sector mental healthcare. This book aims to provide a level of support to psychiatrists that fosters their desire, individually and collectively, to serve the poor and the marginalized with grit and determination, and to broadly consider their potential to improve not only their patients' well-being, but also these patients' incorporation into their respective communities.
Author : Patricia A. Griffin,Kirk Heilbrun
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780199826759
"Authored by academic, policy, and practice experts in this area, Criminal Justice and Mental Illness offers an overview of the changes in correctional policy and practice during the last decade that reflect an increased focus on community-based alternatives for offenders."--