Public psychiatrists today work across a patchwork of public mental health services, physical
health services, public health efforts, criminal justice systems, and social welfare programs …

Given the current implementation of mental health parity in insurance benefits and the
enactment of healthcare reform, this book is essential reading for anyone wanting to …

The focus of this article is on the evolution of mental health care policy in the United States
from the eighteenth century to the present. To the extent that social work practice enacts …

The psychiatry departments at Oregon Health Sciences University and the University of
Colorado Health Sciences Center have established programs for public psychiatry that play …

" I recommend this book to all mental health professionals and students in this field; it
provides the reader with a historical perspective that can add meaning, and perhaps even …

The authors trace the history of community psychiatry along six lines of development—social
psychiatry, changes in hospital programs, development of clinics, evolution of the mental …

Three major cycles of reform in public mental health care in the United States—the moral
treatment, mental hygiene, and community mental health movements—are described as a …

This paper examines the contributions of the psychiatric profession within the public mental
health system. Following a discussion of the current status of psychiatry and the public …

The history of American psychiatry is fundamentally the history of inpatient psychiatry. Every
generation in our nation's history has faced mental health as a significant societal challenge …

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 …