Mental health and social policy
Subtitle: beyond managed care
By: David Mechanic.
Edition: 5th ed.
Publisher: Pearson/Allyn and Bacon
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780205545933
Subjects: Mental health services -- United States; Mental health policy -- United States; Mental Health Services -- United States; Managed Care Programs -- United States; Mental Disorders -- United States; Public Policy -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-303) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Mental health and the mental health professions; title: What are mental health and mental illness?; title: Psychological disorder and the flow of patients into treatment: the study of psychiatric epidemiology; title: Conceptions of the causes of and means of controlling mental illness; title: The development of mental health policy in the United States; title: The recognition of mental disorders; title: The financing and delivery of mental health services; title: Institutionalism and deinstitutionalization: building an effective community services system; title: Innovations in mental health services; title: The social context of mental health practice: foundations of trust; title: Mental illness, the community, and the law.