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The Dilemma of Federal Mental Health Policy. Radical Reform or Incremental Change?.
Grob, Gerald N.; Goldman, Howard H.
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hardcover. Traces how an ever-changing coalition of mental health experts, patients' rights activists, and politicians envisioned the community-based system of psychiatric services. This work shows how policies shifted emphasis from radical reform to incremental change. Series: Critical Issues in Health and Medicine Series. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JKSM; MBPK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 481.
Severe and persistent mental illnesses are among the most pressing health and social problems in contemporary America. Recent estimates suggest that more than three million people in the U.S. have disabling mental disorders. The direct and indirect costs of their care exceed 180 billion dollars nationwide each year. Effective treatments and services exist, but many such individuals do not have access to these services because of limitations in mental health and social policies.
For nearly two centuries Americans have grappled with the question of how to serve individuals with severe disorders. During the second half of the twentieth ... Read more
Severe and persistent mental illnesses are among the most pressing health and social problems in contemporary America. Recent estimates suggest that more than three million people in the U.S. have disabling mental disorders. The direct and indirect costs of their care exceed 180 billion dollars nationwide each year. Effective treatments and services exist, but many such individuals do not have access to these services because of limitations in mental health and social policies.
For nearly two centuries Americans have grappled with the question of how to serve individuals with severe disorders. During the second half of the twentieth ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Rutgers University Press United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
Series
Critical Issues in Health and Medicine Series
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
New Brunswick NJ, United States
ISBN
9780813539584
SKU
V9780813539584
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About Grob, Gerald N.; Goldman, Howard H.
Gerald N. Grob is a Sigerist professor of the history of medicine emeritus at Rutgers University. Howard H. Goldman is a professor of psychiatry at the University of Maryland School of Medicine.
Reviews for The Dilemma of Federal Mental Health Policy. Radical Reform or Incremental Change?.
This is a wonderfully written and clear description of the evolution of mental health policy in America. Grob and Goldman explain how new treatment opportunities have been created at the same time so many are homeless or inappropriately incarcerated. This book is a must read.
Steven S. Sharfstein, M.D.
American Psychiatric Association and President and CEP, Sheppart Pratt ... Read more
Steven S. Sharfstein, M.D.
American Psychiatric Association and President and CEP, Sheppart Pratt ... Read more