Full Description
In 2012, we find ourselves just passing the 50th anniversary of the Eisenhower Commission Report (1961) and approaching the same anniversary of the Community Mental Health Act (1963). These landmark events launched the community mental health movement. The Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the President's New Freedom Commission (2003) have continued this work by establishing funding sources and highlighting the importance of recovery and excellence in care. Modern Community Mental Health: An Interdisciplinary Approach integrates each of the key concepts contained within the presidential reports and landmark legislation into the context of today's community service delivery system.
This pathfinding textbook promises to revolutionize community mental health training by responding to the realities of modern health care delivery systems, presenting an integrated, interdisciplinary paradigm of care. Extraordinarily broad in coverage, it will open a door of possibilities to those caring for the mentally ill in the community. Recognizing that community-based services must be truly collaborative in order to be effective and efficient, the editors have assembled a cast of contributors from among the brightest lights in community practice. Chapter authors, who are currently doing interdisciplinary work successfully on a daily basis, will collaborate on writing teams to offer their insight into the problems and triumphs that are part of this approach. They will cover not only macro issues such as the economics of behavioral healthcare, reimbursement models, and quality improvement, but the specific skills necessary for competent practice such as treatment planning, clinical documentation, risk management, and partnering with members of a team that may include social workers, psychiatrists, psychologists, and nurses. Twenty additional chapters will provide detailed roadmaps to practices and programs that have been shown to be effective when delivered in a community setting--such as supported employment, assertive community treatment (ACT) teams, crisis intervention training (CIT), family psychoeducation, and supported housing--and will be grounded in educational benchmarks, healthcare reform opportunities, and cultural competencies.
By definition community mental health practice is never static. As communities change, the profession changes, and in recent years changes in funding have drastically impacted the system of care. We need empirically supported interventions, to include the voice of the consumers and their families, and have a way to educate current and future professionals so that we all truly work together.
Contents
Section 1 Community Mental Health: Progress and Principles ; Chapter 1 Introduction ; Chapter 2 Public Mental Health in America: "Enlightenment" to Accountable Care ; Chapter 3 State Psychiatric Hospitals in the Twenty-First Century ; Chapter 4 Involuntary Civil Commitment: Applying Evolving Policy and Legal Determination in Community Mental Health ; Chapter 5 Trauma Informed Care ; Chapter 6 An Approach to Interdisciplinary Mental Health Work in South-Verona, Italy ; Chapter 7 Bridging the Interdisciplinary Training Gap ; Section 2 Preparation for Public and Community Work ; Chapter 8 Recovery and Resiliency: Transitioning from the Hospital to the Community ; Chapter 9 The Importance of Preparing Medical Students for Community Psychiatry ; Chapter 10 The Power of Groups in Serious Mental Illness: Integrated Pathways to Recovery ; Chapter 11 Cultural Competency ; Chapter 12 Recovery Facilitating Service Planning: An Interdisciplinary Responsibility ; Chapter 13 Consumer-Professional Partnerships During the Recovery Era ; Chapter 14 Interdisciplinary Mental Health Consultation: A Key Skill for Mental Health Professionals ; Chapter 15 Physical Health and Mental Health Care ; Section 3 Best Practices And Current Evidence For Clinical Practice ; Chapter 16 Evidence Based Practice in Community Mental Health ; Chapter 17 Crisis Intervention and Support ; Chapter 18 Early Intervention and Prevention of Long-Term Disability in Youth and Adults: The EASA Model ; Chapter 19 Family Psychoeducation ; Chapter 20 Assertive Community Treatment Teams ; Chapter 21 Crisis Intervention Teams: A Boundary Spanning Collaboration Between the Law Enforcement and Mental Health Communities ; Chapter 22 Case Management Contributions to Care ; Chapter 23 Principles and Practices of Medication Management for People with Schizophrenia: Evolution Within a Recovery-Based Framework of Care ; Chapter 24 Optimizing Medication in the Service of Recovery: Is There a Path for Reducing Over Utilization of Psychiatric Medications? ; Chapter 25 Supported Housing, Socialization, Education and Employment ; Chapter 26 Recovery and Community Mental Health ; Chapter 27 Military Veterans and Families ; Chapter 28 Mental Illness/Intellectual Disability ; Chapter 29 Addressing Suicide Risk in Community Mental Health ; Chapter 30 Jail Diversion: Using the Sequential Intercept Model ; Section 4 Leadership, Administration, Management ; Chapter 31 New Promises: Specialized Dockets as Partnerships Between Treatment and ; the Criminal Justice System ; Chapter 32 The Use of Technology in a Community Mental Health Setting ; Chapter 33 Establishing a Comprehensive Continuous Integrated System of Care for Persons with Co-Occurring Conditions ; Chapter 34 Transformational Leadership in Mental Health ; Chapter 35 Psychiatric Risk Management: Efforts to Reduce Unforeseen Outcomes ; Chapter 36 Quality Management and Program Evaluation ; Chapter 37 A Social Systems Perspective on Leadership in Systems of Care
