Dimensions of State Mental Health Policy

ISBN-13: 9780275932527 Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic Publication date: 11/01/1990 Edition description: New Edition Pages: 320 Product dimensions: 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.75(d) Lexile: 1470L (what's this?) This volume introduces students to the emerging field of state mental health policy, its history, current policies, organizational models and required programming knowledge. Focusing on current issues and trends, it also provides administrative and policy practitioners with a previously unavailable source of new program designs and initiatives. Five chapters on program development identify key principles of programming and describe model programs in primary prevention, clinical treatment, and psychiatric rehabilitation. Contributors include leading scholars and practitioners, several having served as state commissioners of mental health. This is the first book written specifically on state mental health policy. Its collection of essays together with the editors' introduction and concl