Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Human Resources. Subcommittee on Health and Scientific Research
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Category : Mental health services
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Reappraisal of Mental Health Policy, 1979
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Human Resources. Subcommittee on Health and Scientific Research
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Category : Mental health services
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Mental health services
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
The Dilemma of Federal Mental Health Policy
Author: Gerald N. Grob
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 0813541336
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Severe and persistent mental illnesses are among the most pressing health and social problems in contemporary America. Recent estimates suggest that more than three million people in the U.S. have disabling mental disorders. The direct and indirect costs of their care exceed 180 billion dollars nationwide each year. Effective treatments and services exist, but many such individuals do not have access to these services because of limitations in mental health and social policies. For nearly two centuries Americans have grappled with the question of how to serve individuals with severe disorders. During the second half of the twentieth century, mental health policy advocates reacted against institutional care, claiming that community care and treatment would improve the lives of people with mental disorders. Once the exclusive province of state governments, the federal government moved into this policy arena after World War II. Policies ranged from those focused on mental disorders, to those that focused more broadly on health and social welfare. In this book, Gerald N. Grob and Howard H. Goldman trace how an ever-changing coalition of mental health experts, patients' rights activists, and politicians envisioned this community-based system of psychiatric services. The authors show how policies shifted emphasis from radical reform to incremental change. Many have benefited from this shift, but many are left without the care they require.
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 0813541336
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Severe and persistent mental illnesses are among the most pressing health and social problems in contemporary America. Recent estimates suggest that more than three million people in the U.S. have disabling mental disorders. The direct and indirect costs of their care exceed 180 billion dollars nationwide each year. Effective treatments and services exist, but many such individuals do not have access to these services because of limitations in mental health and social policies. For nearly two centuries Americans have grappled with the question of how to serve individuals with severe disorders. During the second half of the twentieth century, mental health policy advocates reacted against institutional care, claiming that community care and treatment would improve the lives of people with mental disorders. Once the exclusive province of state governments, the federal government moved into this policy arena after World War II. Policies ranged from those focused on mental disorders, to those that focused more broadly on health and social welfare. In this book, Gerald N. Grob and Howard H. Goldman trace how an ever-changing coalition of mental health experts, patients' rights activists, and politicians envisioned this community-based system of psychiatric services. The authors show how policies shifted emphasis from radical reform to incremental change. Many have benefited from this shift, but many are left without the care they require.
Fighting for Recovery
Author: Phyllis Vine
Publisher: Beacon Press
ISBN: 080707974X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
An essential history of the recovery movement for people with mental illness, and an inspiring account of how former patients and advocates challenged a flawed system and encouraged mental health activism This definitive people’s history of the recovery movement spans the 1970s to the present day and proves to readers just how essential mental health activism is to every person in this country, whether you have a current psychiatric diagnosis or not. In Fighting for Recovery, professor and mental health advocate Phyllis Vine tells the history of the former psychiatric patients, families, and courageous activists who formed a patients’ liberation movement that challenged medical authority and proved to the world that recovery from mental illness is possible. Mental health discussions have become more common in everyday life, but there are still enormous numbers of people with psychiatric illness in jails and prisons or who are experiencing homelessness—proving there is still progress to be made. This is a book for you A friend or family member of someone with serious psychiatric diagnoses, to understand the history of mental health reform A person struggling with their own diagnoses, to learn how other patients have advocated for themselves An activist in the peer-services network: social workers, psychologists, and peer counselors, to advocate for change in the treatment of psychiatric patients at the institutional and individual levels A policy maker, clinical psychologist, psychiatric resident, or scholar who wants to become familiar with the social histories of mental illness
Publisher: Beacon Press
ISBN: 080707974X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
An essential history of the recovery movement for people with mental illness, and an inspiring account of how former patients and advocates challenged a flawed system and encouraged mental health activism This definitive people’s history of the recovery movement spans the 1970s to the present day and proves to readers just how essential mental health activism is to every person in this country, whether you have a current psychiatric diagnosis or not. In Fighting for Recovery, professor and mental health advocate Phyllis Vine tells the history of the former psychiatric patients, families, and courageous activists who formed a patients’ liberation movement that challenged medical authority and proved to the world that recovery from mental illness is possible. Mental health discussions have become more common in everyday life, but there are still enormous numbers of people with psychiatric illness in jails and prisons or who are experiencing homelessness—proving there is still progress to be made. This is a book for you A friend or family member of someone with serious psychiatric diagnoses, to understand the history of mental health reform A person struggling with their own diagnoses, to learn how other patients have advocated for themselves An activist in the peer-services network: social workers, psychologists, and peer counselors, to advocate for change in the treatment of psychiatric patients at the institutional and individual levels A policy maker, clinical psychologist, psychiatric resident, or scholar who wants to become familiar with the social histories of mental illness
Monthly Catalogue, United States Public Documents
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1114
Book Description
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1114
Book Description
Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications
Author: United States. Superintendent of Documents
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1220
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Publisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1220
Book Description
Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 968
Book Description
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 968
Book Description
Current Catalog
Author: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
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Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 1122
Book Description
Includes subject section, name section, and 1968-1970, technical reports.
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Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 1122
Book Description
Includes subject section, name section, and 1968-1970, technical reports.
Cumulative Index of Congressional Committee Hearings (not Confidential in Character).
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Library
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1172
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1172
Book Description
Bibliographic Guide to Government Publications
Author: New York Public Library. Research Libraries
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 848
Book Description
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 848
Book Description
United States Code Congressional and Administrative News
Author: United States
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Category : Administrative law
Languages : en
Pages : 2188
Book Description
Contains laws, legislative history, administrative regulations, lists of committees, proclamations, executive messages and orders.
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Category : Administrative law
Languages : en
Pages : 2188
Book Description
Contains laws, legislative history, administrative regulations, lists of committees, proclamations, executive messages and orders.