We should adopt a health ecosystems approach to mental healthcare and training,
encompassing nano to macrolevels of service in every region. Catchment mental health …

This paper aims to give an overview of the key issues facing those who are in a position to
influence the planning and provision of mental health systems, and who need to address …

Modern community psychiatry provides public sector psychiatric services to populations in
efficient yet cost-effective ways. Increasingly, psychiatrists are applying the same methods …

There are wide inconsistencies between, and even within, countries in how community-
orientated care is defined and interpreted. The analysis presented in this book take as a …

The first edition of Community Mental Health quickly established itself as one of the most
comprehensive and timely books about mental health practice in community settings …

This paper summarises our own accumulated experience from developing community-
orientated mental health services in England and Italy over the last 20-30 years. From this …

What is the best way to provide mental health care within the community? How can these
services be provided in a way that is easy to access and offer treatments that really work …

When it was first published in 2006, Community Mental Health in Canada was hailed as a
much-needed critical overview of the provision of public mental health services in Canada …

85 deinstitutionalisation movement, supported by the strong evidence of 'institutionalism',
which is the development of disabilities as a consequence of social isolation and …

Mental health ecosystems research is an emerging discipline which takes a whole-systems
approach to mental healthcare, facilitating analysis of the complex environment and context …