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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
David A Rochefort |
| ISBN: | 031325009X 9780313250095 |
| OCLC Number: | 18744732 |
| Description: | xvii, 546 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Foreword / Edward M. Kennedy -- Mental illness and mental health as public policy concerns / David A. Rochefort -- The contemporary mental health systems : facilities, services, personnel, and finances / Frederic G. Reamer -- Psychiatric epidemiology : an overview of methods and findings / Sarah Rosenfield -- Special problem populations : the chronically mentally ill, elderly, children, minorities, and substance abusers / Evelyn J. Bromet and Herbert C. Schulberg -- From the asylum to the community in U.S. mental health care : a historical overview / Leland V. Bell -- A national community mental health program : policy initiation and progress / James M. Cameron -- The alcohol, drug abuse, and mental health block grant : origins, design, and impact / David A. Rochefort and Bruce M. Logan. Mental health policymaking in the United States : patterns, process, and structures / Philip K. Armour -- An evaluative overview of the community mental health centers program / David A. Dowell and James A. Ciarlo -- Community residential care / Steven P. Segal and Pamela Kotler -- Nursing homes as community mental health facilities / Margaret W. Linn and Shayna Stein -- Homelessness as a public mental health problem / Irene Shifren Levine and Loretta K. Haggard -- The changing role of the public mental hospital / Joseph P. Morrissey -- Mental health insurance / M. Susan Ridgely and Howard H. Goldman -- Legal issues in mental health care : current perspectives / Ingo Keilitz -- Administrative and service provision issues / Jeanette M. Jerrell and S. Lee Jerrell. Preventive services in mental health / Raymond P. Lorion and LaRue Allen -- Needs assessment techniques / Phillip M. Massad and Barrie E. Blunt -- Mental health system strategic planning / David Goodrick -- Toward the year 2000 in U.S. mental health policymaking and administration / David Mechanic. |
| Other Titles: | Mental health policy in the United States. |
| Responsibility: | edited by David A. Rochefort ; foreword by Edward M. Kennedy. |
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