Product Description: A Public Health Perspective of Women’s Mental Health Edited by Bruce Lubotsky Levin and Marion Ann Becker   As many as one-half of all women in the U.S. will experience some form of mental illness in their lives―an especially distressing fact when health care budgets are in flux, adding to existing disparities and unmet health needs...read more

This timesaving resource features: * Progress notes components for 25 behaviorally based presenting problems that correlate with The Severe and Persistent Mental Illness Treatment Planner * Over 1,000 prewritten progress notes describing client presentation and interventions implemented * Prewritten progress notes that can be quickly adapted to fit a particular client need or treatment situation The Severe and Persistent Mental Illness Progress Notes Planner contains complete prewritten session and patient presentation descriptions for each behavioral problem in The Severe and Persistent Mental Illness Treatment Planner. The prewritten progress notes can be easily and quickly adapted to fit a particular client need or treatment situation. * Saves you hours of time-consuming paperwork, yet offers the freedom to develop customized progress notes * Organized around 25 main presenting problems that range from antisocial behavior and eating disorders to anxiety, substance abuse, gambling, and others * Features over 1,000 prewritten progress notes (summarizing patient presentation, themes of session, and treatment delivered) * Provides an array of treatment approaches that correspond with the behavioral problems and DSM-IV(TM) diagnostic categories in The Severe and Persistent Mental Illness Treatment Planner * Offers sample progress notes that conform to the requirements of most third-party payers and accrediting agencies, including the JCAHO and the NCQA

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Product Description: This text examines the public mental health policies, programs, and services that constitute a collective response to mental illness. The author explores the process and politics of policy making as a framework for understanding historical and current policies and services related to mental illness...read more

Product Description: Regardless of the fate of national health care reform, public policy makers will have to make difficult and tragic choices about which health services are more or less important. This volume, the first comprehensive examination of setting mental health services priorities, systematically explores the history, ethics, and politics of setting priorities for public mental health services...read more

Product Description: Prevention Planning in Community Mental Health assembles what is known about prevention planning within various sectors -- government, community mental health centres, schools, informal community groups and the workplace. Specialists in each area review the literature, discuss planning theories, give intervention guidelines and present empirical case examples...read more

Product Description: Valuable to both practitioners and students, this comprehensive book focuses on the contribution of needs assessment to preventive activities. The impressive range of chapters features information on the assessment of preventable mental health problems, a model for anticipating needs for drug treatment and prevention, and a needs assessment for developing primary prevention for children and youth...read more