Mental Health Care Administration
Subtitle: A Guide for Practitioners
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: April 6, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780472111169
Subjects: Mental Health And Hygiene; Medical; Medical / Nursing; Administration; Health Policy; Mental Health; Medical / Psychiatry; Reference / General; Mental health services; United States
Description: "This definitive resource offers those working in the field of mental health services administration fundamental information on delivery of care systems from an organizational perspective. It examines the principles of leadership and management in the field and sets the practice of psychiatric administration and management in the context of today's rapidly evolving health care environment.

Mental Health Care Administration provides an understanding of the complexities of clinical skills and the delicacies of therapeutic issues in a mental health care setting and will be especially useful for those clinicians who have assumed administrative roles and for those administrators trained exclusively in programs emphasizing management and leadership."--BOOK JACKET.