Oxford Textbook of Community Mental Health Online

by Thornicroft, Graham; Szmukler, George; Mueser, Kim T.; Drake, Robert E.

• ISBN13: 9780199640478
• ISBN10: 0199640475
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2011-03-01
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

In the past 20 years, there have been major developments in community mental health care across the world. The Oxford Textbook of Community Mental Health is the most comprehensive and authoritative review published in this field. Combining both traditional and more recent concepts, this work looks at current approaches and details how the subject has evolved over the past decade, addressing controversies, and emphasizes areas of convergence, where social values, medical science, and policy forces agree on specific directions.

The online version of the Oxford Textbook of Community Mental Health contains the full text of the print edition (which can be browsed by the contents list or searched), links from references in the text to external sources (via PubMed, ISI, and CrossRef), and all figures and illustrations from the print edition, downloadable into PowerPoint.

Table of Contents

Introduction
1. Introduction to community mental health?, Bob Drake, George Szmukler, Kim Mueser & Graham Thornicroft
Origins of 'community psychiatry'
2. Historical changes in mental health practice, Nikolas Rose
3. Mental health policy in modern America, Gerald Grob
4. Recovery as an integrative paradigm in mental health, Mike Slade & Larry Davidson
Needs: perspectives and assessment
5. Mental illnesses at the population level, Peter Jones, Glyn H. Lewis, Hollie V. Thomas & Mary Cannon
6. Treated and untreated prevalence of mental disorder, Philip Wang
7. The global burden of mental disorder, Martin Prince
8. Expertise from experience: mental health recovery and wellness, Peggy Swarbrick
9. Measuring the needs of people with mental illness, Mike Slade, Graham Thornicroft & Michele Tansella
10. Mental health, ethnicity and cultural diversity: evidence and challenges, Craig Morgan
11. Responding to migration and upheaval, Richard F. Mollica & Maya Semrau
Service components
12. Organising the range of community mental health services, Graham Thornicroft,, Michele Tansella & Robert E, Drake
13. Crisis and emergency services, Sonia Johnson, Jonathan Totman & Lorna Hobbs
14. Early interventions for people with psychotic disorders, Paddy Power & Pat McGorry
15. Case management and assertive community treatment, Helen Killaspy & Alan Rosen
16. Psychiatric out-patient clinics, Thomas Becker & Markus Koesters
17. Day hospital and partial hospitalisation programmes, Aart Schene
18. Individual placement and support: the evidence-based practice of supported employment, Deborah R. Becker, Gary R. Bond,& Robert E. Drake
19. In-patient treatment, Frank Holloway & Lloyd I. Sederer
20. Residential care, Geoff Shepherd & Rob Macpherson
21. Programmes to support family members and caregivers, Amy L. Drapalski & Lisa B. Dixon
22. Medication management, Jonathan Shaywitz & Stephen Marder
23. Managing co-occurring physical disorders in mental heath care, Delia Cimpean
24. Self-management programmes, Kim Mueser and Susan Gingerich
Ethical and legal aspects
25. Ethical framework for community mental health, Abraham Rudnick, Cheryl Forchuk & George Szmulker
26. International human rights and community mental health, Oliver Lewis and Peter Bartlett
27. Treatment pressures, coercion and compulsion, George Szmukler & Paul Appelbaum
Stigma and discrimination
28. Public knowledge and awareness about mental illnesses, Tony Jorm
29. Public attitudes towards people with mental illness, Bruce Link, Matthias Angermeyer & Jo Phelan
30. Reducing stigma and discriminatory behaviour, Graham Thornicroft & Nisha Mehta
Policies and the funding
31. Shaping national mental health policies, Harvey Whiteford
32. Using information and evidence to improve mental health care, Michelle Funk, Jodi Morris & Shekhar Saxena
33. Funding mental health services, Daniel Chisholm & Martin Knapp
Assessing the evidence for effectiveness
34. Research designs and evaluating treatment interventions, Peter Tyrer
35. Qualitative research methods in mental health, Rob Whitley
36. Understanding and using systematic literature reviews, Andrea Cipriani & Corrado Barbui
37. Developing Evidence-Based Mental Health Practices, Kim T. Mueser & Robert E. Drake
38. Mental health services in low and middle income countries, R. Srinivasa Murthy
Methods for insuring that effective care is provided
39. Producing guidelines, protocols and toolkits, Troy A. Moore, Alexander L. Miller & Elizabeth Kuipers
40. Implementing guidelines, Amy Cheung, Paula Whitty, Martin P. Eccles & Jeremy Grimshaw
41. Overcoming impediments to community mental health in low and middle income countries, Benedetto Saraceno, Mark van Ommeren & Rajaie Batniji
42. The challenge of integrated care at the programme level, William C. Torrey & Mary F. Brunette
Looking to the Future
43. Summing up: community mental health in the future, Graham Thornicroft, Robert E. Drake, Kim T. Mueser & George Szmukler