Background Closure of asylums and institutions for the mentally ill, coupled with government
policies focusing on reducing the number of hospital beds for people with severe mental …

Rochefort provides a comprehensive review of mental health policy issues in American
society, beginning with early practices that predate the formal" mental health system" and …

As a field progresses, people write about their own work in journals, chapters, and books;
but periodically the work needs to be collected and organized. It needs to be brought …

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Teams, in all their various forms, are at the heart of local mental health services. Yet little has
been written up to now on how to make them effective over the long term. This text, written by …

A new community multidisciplinary team based in primary care is described and the
experience of the first year discussed. The effect the team has had on the use of psychiatric …

An introductory chapter considers different models of forensic service systems and presents
the rationale for community-based systems. The rest of the volume presents a …

Chronic mentally ill persons in the community depend on an array of psychological, social,
and medical support services that are delivered by public and private sources and are under …

This paper presents findings of the German participants in the WHO multicenter study on
“The Assessment of Disability Associated with Schizophrenic Disorders.” Using the PSE, the …

This paper explores the impact of a CommunityMental Health Center intervention activities
on theinpatient psychiatric morbidity of two areas served bythis center. Athens University …