Innovative approaches to mental health evaluation
By: edited by Gerald J. Stahler, William R. Tash.
Contributors: Stahler, Gerald.; Tash, William R.
Publisher: Academic Press
Published: 1982
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 394
Subjects: Mental health services -- Evaluation.
Description: This book is a collection of papers that provides a broad range of ideas, methods, and techniques in program administration and evaluation in the field of mental health. The book is organized into 2 sections. Part I, consisting of 8 chapters, presents the necessary evaluation strategies and approaches that effectively address the important mental health issues for the 1980s such as prevention programs; the linking of health and mental health delivery systems; accountability in assuring quality of services; deinstitutionalizing the chronically mentally ill; and providing for greater local participation in mental health program management. Part II, surveys the promising evaluation methods, approaches, and relevant issues that are emerging in the new organizational and political environment of the mental health system.
Notes: Includes bibliographies and index.