The group-level symptom-reduction model of mental health care emphasizes predetermined
treatment guidelines for those mental and social difficulties that are diagnosable as mental …

The content and organization of mental health care have been heavily influenced by the
view that mental difficulties come as diagnosable disorders that can be treated by specialist …

Background Mental health and mental illness have been contested concepts for decades,
with a wide variety of models being proposed. To date, there has been no exhaustive review …

NEEDED: A PSYCHOSOCIAL CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM many and varied needs of their
patients. Health-care providers cannot solve all of the physical, mental, and social problems …

Until recently clinical psychology has been mainly concerned with what is defined as deviant
and/or maladaptive mental states. In this chapter, we present a new model for sustainable …

Objective: To consider whether the many types of treatments for mental disorders—both
those specifically targeting illness mechanisms and nonspecific elements—are also effective …

Whatever has been said thus far is most readily understood in the context of the three
principal objectives that have guided this volume. The first aim was to delineate a set of …

Two key challenges face mental health practitioners: making the correct psychiatric
diagnosis and choosing the most appropriate treatment option. This book aims to help with …

OBJECTIVE: The authors describe work conducted to identify, describe, and validate
subgroups, or clusters, of adults with severe mental illness. METHODS: Clusters were first …

This article discusses the significant transformation that is occurring in conceptualizing
serious mental illness (SMI) and its treatment. Three key areas of that transformation are …