Better mental health care
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Better mental health care
Cambridge University Press, 2009
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description and Table of Contents
Description
A concise guide to establishing, developing and evaluating modern mental health services, providing the relevant evidence to support necessary choices between alternative models of care. It includes a step-by-step guide to what to do and how to do it, taking into account the needs of people with mental illnesses in the general population, the available resources, and the main policy requirements. It also gives readers practical resources to assist them in their role in establishing and developing mental health services with examples of best practice taken from countries world-wide. In addition, key relevant issues such as international agreements on human rights and guidelines on best practice to reduce stigma and discrimination are explained.
Table of Contents
- Foreword Benedetto Saraceno
- Acknowledgements
- 1. Beginning the journey - mapping the route
- 2. Mental health of the population and care in the community
- 3. The historical context
- 4. The ethical base for mental health care
- 5. The evidence base for mental health care
- 6. The experience base for mental health care
- 7. The geographical dimension: the country/regional level
- 8. The geographical dimension: the local level
- 9. The geographical dimension: the individual level
- 10. The time dimension: the input phase
- 11. The time dimension: the process phase
- 12. The time dimension: the outcome phase
- 13. The central role of staff for better mental health care
- 14. Informed actions for better mental health care.
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