Better Mental Health Care
- Authors:
- Graham Thornicroft, King's College London
- Michele Tansella, Università degli Studi di Verona
- Date Published: December 2008
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- isbn: 9780511451577
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A concise guide to establishing, developing and evaluating modern mental health services, providing the relevant evidence to support necessary choices between alternative models of care. It includes a step-by-step guide to what to do and how to do it, taking into account the needs of people with mental illnesses in the general population, the available resources, and the main policy requirements. It also gives readers practical resources to assist them in their role in establishing and developing mental health services with examples of best practice taken from countries world-wide. In addition, key relevant issues such as international agreements on human rights and guidelines on best practice to reduce stigma and discrimination are explained.
Read more- Includes text-boxes of quotations from service users/consumers describing their experiences, linked to the themes of each chapter
- Provides multiple web links directing readers to additional sources of more detailed information
- Features an appendix of abbreviations, acronyms and terminology in the mental heath field
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"This book goes beyond deinstitutionalization of psychiatric patients to describe a systematic approach at the hospital, community, and individual level for better addressing the needs of persons with different levels of illness. Its broad international perspective offers hope beyond the limited experience of the United States. It is packed with research that is both epidemiological and based on the evidence....It is accessible to different levels of educational backgrounds while maintaining a solid academic base....Clear lists, charts, and graphs make this book quite practical. It foresees problems like finances as well as neighborhood and staff resistance towards new models of delivering services and addresses these issues directly....A timely book in light of the current efforts for healthcare reform in the United States."
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- Date Published: December 2008
- format: Adobe eBook Reader
- isbn: 9780511451577
- contains: 10 b/w illus. 53 tables
- availability: This ISBN is for an eBook version which is distributed on our behalf by a third party.
Table of Contents
Foreword Benedetto Saraceno
Acknowledgements
1. Beginning the journey - mapping the route
2. Mental health of the population and care in the community
3. The historical context
4. The ethical base for mental health care
5. The evidence base for mental health care
6. The experience base for mental health care
7. The geographical dimension: the country/regional level
8. The geographical dimension: the local level
9. The geographical dimension: the individual level
10. The time dimension: the input phase
11. The time dimension: the process phase
12. The time dimension: the outcome phase
13. The central role of staff for better mental health care
14. Informed actions for better mental health care.
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