Full Description
Given the current implementation of mental health parity in insurance benefits and the enactment of healthcare reform, this book is essential reading for anyone wanting to understand both the historical context of public psychiatry and what the future might hold.Most people with serious mental illness are seen in the public sector of psychiatry, and the significance of psychiatric treatment in the public sector is best understood one person at a time.This book tells the story of public psychiatry with examples from the author's experience running Connecticut Mental Health Center (CMHC), one of the US's premier public mental health centres.
Contents
ForewordPrefaceChapter 1: Introduction and overview of the chaptersChapter 2: A brief history of modern public psychiatryChapter 3: The state-university partnership and the Connecticut Mental Health Center Chapter 4: The CMHC and services during the community mental health movement, 1966-82Chapter 5: The CMHC and services during the system development period, 1982-93Chapter 6: The CMHC and services during the period of mainstreaming, 1993-2003Chapter 7: The CMHC and services during the period of transformation, 2003-presentChapter 8: Future directions in public psychiatry and conclusionBibliography Index
