Product Description: What causes a person to flourish or languish? Or to be well or ill? How can the mental health and well-being of society as a whole, and individuals, be promoted and enhanced? This book explores the social, economic, political, cultural and environmental factors that affect mental health and well-being on a societal and individual level, and how prevention and intervention can enhance mental health...read more

This is a manifesto for an entirely new approach to psychiatric care; one that truly offers care rather than coercion, therapy rather than medication, and a return to the common sense appreciation that distress is usually an understandable reaction to life's challenges.

Product Description: The psychiatric profession must ensure that its next generation of leaders has the appropriate skills to provide mental health services in the face of globalization and urbanization, new technologies, and competing demands for shrinking resources...read more

Mental health service users and carers are increasingly involved in the planning and delivery of a mental health education that gives a "real-life" perspective to the practice of mental health care. Teaching and Learning about Mental Health is designed to teach and train new mental health workers, using an interdisciplinary approach. Divided into three parts, the first discusses learning from service users; the second looks at innovative practices in teaching and learning; and the final part examines several approaches in teaching and learning, all illustrated with examples.

A mental health information system is a system for collecting and applying information about a mental health service and the mental health needs of the population it serves. The module begins with a discussion of what information should be collected and how this information can be used. Based on the experiences of several countries in developing health information systems, the module articulates a number of broad principles that a country should adhere to in the development of a mental health informationsystem. It then lays out a step-by-step approach to designing, establishing and evaluating such a system. Information systems are essential for both long-term national mental health planning and service delivery at community and individual levels.--Publisher's description.

Developing mental health team effectiveness requires that we explore both how people work together and the context of the team itself. This text examines the historical, social policy, political and organizational context alongside the design and the management of team processes.

Product Description: Until recently, behavioral health was defined within the strict dichotomy of inpatient and outpatient care -- a dichotomy that failed to mirror the range and complexity of human experience and clinical needs. Today's integrated system renders this dichotomy obsolete...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Mental Health Outcome Evaluation bridges the gap between traditional research and evaluation methods by presenting an alternative to the highly technical and statistical methods developed in the laboratory for mental health care professionals...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This second edition provides an easy-to-learn, easy-to-use method for documenting and communicating the necessity, appropriateness, and course of treatment for managed care review. Using the Patient Impairment Profile method, practitioners can convey a rationale for treatment, efficiently track progress, and demonstrate favorable patient outcomes...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Because of the increased focus on managed care there is a growing demand for alternatives to psychiatric hospital treatment. In Alternatives to the Hospital for Acute Psychiatric Care, a range of acute nonhospital treatment programs from the United states and abroad are described, including locked- and open-door, voluntary and involuntary, public and private, and nontraditional and strictly medical settings...read more

Product Description: Designed as a source of practical ideas as well as an aid for hard-pressed managers in human services that seek to support and help people with long-term disabilities. Features the STAR model which is used to organize and analyze numerous influences on performance and satisfaction at work...read more

Product Description: This international handbook is the first to analyze mental health policies systematically across a variety of both developed and developing countries. Mental health and public policy experts survey current policies, the public policy process, and critical issues in twenty countries that are representative of different problems...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This volume reviews the emerging patterns of mental health care delivery in different western countries, outlining the innovations of recent years and analyzing some of the impediments to their full implementation. The provision of effective mental health care services to all sections of the population at a reasonable cost is one of the most pressing problems facing clinicians, planners and administrators...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)