Mental Health Matrix - A Manual to Improve Services

Klappentext A manual to guide evidence-based reform of mental health services. Zusammenfassung This book is a manual for the evidence-based direction of services towards increased clinical effectiveness. A unique model is described through which a better understanding of mental health services can be developed. The model's wide-ranging practical applications in the diagnosis of service strengths and weaknesses are fully detailed. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contributors; Foreword Sir David Goldberg; Preface Leon Eisenberg; Acknowledgements; Part I. The Context: 1. Aims, concepts and structure of the book; 2. Community, mental health services and the public health; 3. The historical context; Part II. The Matrix Model: The Geographical Dimension: 4. The country/regional level; 5. The local level; 6. The patient level; Part III. The Matrix Model: The Temporal Dimension: 7. The input phase; 8. The process phase; 9. The outcome phase; Part IV. Re-Forming Community-Based Mental Health Services: 10. The evidence base for mental health services; 11. The ethical base for mental health services: 'the three ACEs'; 12. Key resources: training and morale of staff; 13. Planning based on evidence and on ethical principles; Part V. International Perspectives on Re-Forming Mental Health Services: 14. Australia Alan Rosen; 15. Canada Alain D. Lesage; 16. Central and Eastern European countries Toma Tomov; 17. Nordic European countries Povl Munk-Jørgensen; 18. United States Richard Warner; Part VI. A Working Synthesis: 19. The matrix model as a pragmatic guide to improve services; References; Glossary; Index.

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• Authors: Michele Tansella, Michele (Universit... degli Studi di Verona) Tansella, Michele (Universita degli Studi di Verona) Tansella, Tansella Michele, Graham Thornicroft, Graham (Institute of Psychiatry Thornicroft, Graham Tansella Thornicroft, Thornicroft Graham
• Assisted by: David Goldberg (Foreword)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.07.1999
• EAN: 9780521621557
• ISBN: 978-0-521-62155-7
• No. of pages: 316
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; MEDICAL / Mental Health, MEDICAL / Psychiatry / General, Psychiatry, Mental health services