Mental Health Care and Social Policy

Herausgeber: Brown, Phil

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Originally published in 1985, at a time when the previous 2 decades had witnessed dramatic changes in the US mental health system. These included the decline of the state mental hospital, the birth of the community mental health center and the expansion of psychiatric services in general hospitals. The inevitable results of the changes were the creation of a huge nursing home population of the chronically mentally ill, and the multiplication of urban 'street people'. Mental health care is uncoordinated and underfunded. The historical roots of these problems are examined in this book which is designed both as a professional reference volume and as a text for students in the sociology of mental health and illness. The contributors are drawn from diverse fields, including sociology, psychiatry, psychology, epidemiology and social history.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Mai 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 672g
• ISBN-13: 9781032252421
• ISBN-10: 1032252421
• Artikelnr.: 69943587

Autorenporträt

Phil Brown is Professor of Sociology and Environmental Studies at Brown University, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: Historical and Conceptual Concerns 1. Madness and Segregative
Control: The Rise of the Insane Asylum 2. The Enduring Asylum David Rothman
3. Cycles of Institutional Reform Part 2: The Changing Mental Health System
4. The De Facto US Mental Health Services System: A Public Health
Perspective 5. Deinstitutionalization and Mental Health Services 6. General
Hospital Psychiatry: Overview From a Sociological Perspective 7. Community
Control or Control of the Community? The Case of the Community Mental
Health Center 8. The Mental Patients' Rights Movement, and Mental Health
Institutional Change Part 3: Providers and Treatments 9. Professional
Training and the Future of Psychiatry 10. Prediction in Psychiatry: An
Example of Misplaced Confidence in Experts 11. Medical Dominance:
Psychoactive Drugs and Mental Health Policy Thomas J. Scheff 12. Clinical
Psychopharmacology in its Twentieth Year George E. Crane Part 4:
Alternatives to Traditional Mental Health Services 13. Mental Hospitals and
Alternative Care: Non-institutionalization as Potential Public Policy 14.
Self-Help and Mental Health 15. Inside the Mental Patients' Association16.
Psychology of Women: Feminist Therapy 17. From Confinement to Community:
The Radical Transformation of an Italian Mental Hospital 18. The Collective
Approach to Psychiatric Practice in the People's Republic of China.