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Tables of Contents for Mental Health and Social Policy
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
xi
Mental Health and the Mental Health Professions
1
18
Symptoms, Diseases, and Reaction Patterns
3
1
Disease, Personality Disturbance, or Problem in Living
4
1
Social Adjustment
4
1
Patterns of Mental Health Utilization
5
2
The Mental Health Professions
7
2
Mental Health Personnel and Work Patterns
9
4
Trends in Mental Health Care
13
3
Changing Inpatient Care
16
3
What Are Mental Health and Mental Illness?
19
28
Psychiatric Diagnosis Guidelines
19
3
Varieties of Mental Illness
22
1
Schizophrenia: An Example in Psychiatric Conceptualization
23
5
Varying Conceptions of Mental Illness
28
5
Developmental Models
33
2
Changing Conceptions of Mental Illness
35
2
Social Conceptions of Mental Illness
37
3
Views of Mental Illness in Relation to Social Policy
40
3
The Patient and the Society: An Insoluble Dilemma
43
1
Social Problem or Mental Illness?
44
3
Psychological Disorder and the Flow of Patients into Treatment: The Study of Psychiatric Epidemiology
47
18
Identifying Psychological Problems in Community Populations
48
3
Estimates of Prevalence of Disorder in Community Populations
51
1
The Epidemiological Catchment Area Program and the National Comorbidity Survey
52
3
Psychological Disorder and Utilization of Care
55
4
Social Factors Associated with Psychiatric Conditions in the Community
59
4
The Epidemiology of Antisocial Behavior and Behavior Disorders
63
2
Conceptions of the Causes of and Means of Controlling Mental Illness
65
22
The Impact of Environment on Mental Illness
65
1
The Question of Inheritance and Environment
66
3
A Note on Psychiatric Drugs
69
3
The Psychosocial-Development Perspective
72
5
The Learning Perspective: Behavior Therapy
77
2
The Social-Stress Perspective
79
4
The Labeling Perspective
83
2
Collective Mobilization
85
2
The Development of Mental Health Policy in the United States
87
24
The Early History of Worcester State Hospital
90
1
More Recent Developments in Mental Health Policy
91
2
Post-World War II Developments in Mental Health Policy
93
1
Postwar Psychiatry
93
9
The Organization of State Mental Hospitals
102
3
Programs of Community Care
105
1
The Composition of the Seriously Mentally Ill Population
106
2
Homelessness and Mental Illness
108
3
The Recognition of Mental Disorders
111
16
Mental Illness, Illness Behavior, and Entry into Psychiatric Care
113
6
Community Definitions of Mental Illness
119
5
The Course of Schizophrenia
124
3
The Financing and Delivery of Mental Health Services
127
24
Mental Health Coverage and Expenditures
128
2
The Pattern of Inpatient Services
130
1
Utilization of Services and Financing Patterns
131
1
The Economics of Mental Health Care
132
2
Psychiatric Care under Prepayment Plans
134
3
The Structure of Insurance and Needed Mental Health Benefits
137
6
An Epidemiological Approach to Psychiatric Need
143
1
The Role of Primary Medical Care
144
3
The Management of Psychological Distress
147
4
Managed Mental Health Care
151
16
Basic Mechanisms of Managed Care
152
2
Types of Managed Care Organizations
154
2
Managed Care for Persons with Mental Illness
156
3
Opportunities and Special Problems in Managed Mental Health Care
159
1
Performance of Managed Care
160
4
Some Unresolved Issues in Managed Care
164
3
Central Perspectives in Formulating Mental Health Policies
167
35
Concepts of Severe and Persistent Mental Illness
167
2
Criteria for Evaluation
169
7
The Processes of Deinstitutionalization
176
3
Environmental Factors Promoting Effective Performance
179
6
Implications of Community Institutional Placement
185
1
Models for Community Care
186
7
Points of Leverage
193
5
Modifying State Mental Health Systems
193
1
Medicaid Reform
194
2
Improving Disability Determination
196
2
The Case-Management Approach
198
1
Organizational Barriers
199
3
The Absence of a Clear Focus of Responsibility and Authority
200
2
Innovations in Mental Health Services
202
14
Maintenance of Patients with Persistent Disorders
205
3
A Further Note on Employment
208
2
Problems in the Diffusion of Mental Health Innovations
210
1
Innovations in Housing
211
2
Changing Roles of the Mental Health Professions
213
1
Future Trends in Innovative Mental Health Services
214
2
The Social Context of Mental Health Practice: Foundations of Trust
216
14
Social Influences on Psychiatric Judgment
220
1
Personal and Social Biographies
220
2
The Sociocultural Context
222
4
Constraints of Practice Organization and Settings
226
1
Competition in the Allocation of Care
227
1
A Note on the Care of Chronically Impaired Patients
228
2
Mental Illness, the Community, and the Law
230
20
Involuntary Hospitalization
231
6
Outpatient Commitment
237
1
A Note on Dangerousness and the Relationship between Mental Illness and Violence
238
4
The Right to Treatment
242
3
Right to Refuse Treatment
245
2
The Social Context of Legal Reform in Mental Health
247
3
References
250
23
Name Index
273
6
Subject Index
279