Abstract 22 contributed chapters, including 3 by the editor, are presented under 4 section
headings: Basic Concepts; Scope of Community Psychiatry; Members of the Team and Their …

The broad dimensions of community mental health pose a distinct challenge for
psychiatrists. As I review and interpret the myriad of activities over the past decade which …

Text: book; for upper-division and graduate students in social work, psychology, psychiatry,
psychiatric nursing, and public health.(PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights …

Practice, the evolution of the com-munity mental health movement in the United States
enters a new developmental stage. Drs. Mosher and Burti challenge current ways of thinking …

The author delineates some of the critical issues that face community mental health, with the
opportunity for either growth and further development or regression into a decentralized type …

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 …

THE PROPOSAL to add community psychiatry to the ever-widening list of psychiatric
specialties deserves a critical examination. Thus, my purpose in this paper is fourfold. First, I …

The community has responsibility" for the quality and adequacy of the mental health services
that it gets. The opportunities are now open for communities to employ the mechanism of the …

ETTING what one wants may be one of life's disillusionments, but it is also instructive. In
October 1963, supporters of the “community mental health” approach to psychiatry got a …