Handbook on Mental Health Policy in the United States

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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 programmes and facilities designed to serve them. Written by 29 specialists in the field, it provides analyses of recent empirical findings and a thoughtful review of the challenges that lie ahead. The volume concludes with a discussion of possible future trends in mental health policymaking and administration.

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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.-Choice
"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."-Choice

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DAVID A. ROCHEFORT is Associate Professor in the Political Science Department at Northeastern University. Rochefort is a former postdoctoral fellow in the Rutgers-Princeton Program in Mental Health Research and the author of American Social Welfare Policy: Dynamics of Formulation and Change. He has served as a policy consultant for government agencies in the states of Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and New Jersey.