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Redressing the Emperor: Improving Our Children's Public Mental Health System (Contemporary Psychology)
John Lyons
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Description for Redressing the Emperor: Improving Our Children's Public Mental Health System (Contemporary Psychology)
hardcover. An engaging treatise on the state of our children's mental health system, explaining why needed improvements are non-existent or inconsistent, and describing two strategies to fuel evolution of the system for better service to our youngsters. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JKSM; JMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 245 x 164 x 26. Weight in Grams: 599.
Lyons provides a fresh and thought-provoking understanding of the children's public mental health system, as well as the need to foster its evolution and improvement. He presents the history of child mental health systems, including the U.S. system's roots and the early 19th-century case of the Wild Boy of Aveyron, which demonstrated the potentially therapeutic effects of environment. He shows us why modern leaders and presidents have issued calls for improvements to the U.S. child mental health system, and what barriers have slowed or even halted this evolution. Such barriers, Lyons explains, can be removed with community development and better ... Read more
Lyons provides a fresh and thought-provoking understanding of the children's public mental health system, as well as the need to foster its evolution and improvement. He presents the history of child mental health systems, including the U.S. system's roots and the early 19th-century case of the Wild Boy of Aveyron, which demonstrated the potentially therapeutic effects of environment. He shows us why modern leaders and presidents have issued calls for improvements to the U.S. child mental health system, and what barriers have slowed or even halted this evolution. Such barriers, Lyons explains, can be removed with community development and better ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Praeger United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780275981433
SKU
V9780275981433
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About John Lyons
JOHN S. LYONS is Professor of Psychiatry and Community Medicine at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine, and Director of the University's Mental Health Services and Policy Program.
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