Integrated Mental Health Care - A Comprehensive, Community-Based Approach

Klappentext A new! practical and cost effective approach to the provision of mental health services to a community. Zusammenfassung A challenging book which describes a new! practical! problem-solving and cost effective approach to the provision of mental health services to a community. The authors draw widely on international research in the field in a book which will be of the greatest interest to health care professionals in whatever treatment setting they may be working. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction: who needs community-based care?; 2. Community management of mental disorders: integrating patients, carers and primary health care with specialist mental health services; 3. Effective therapeutic strategies; 4. Early detection of major mental disorders; 5. Problem-based assessment of functioning; 6. Crisis intervention and intensive care for acute episodes: creating an asylum at home; 7. Prevention of recurrent disorders; 8. Integrated clinical management of the long-term disabled; 9. Assessment of benefits and costs of the service to the community; 10. Conclusions and future directions.

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• Authors: Grainne Fadden, Ian R. H. Falloon, Ian R. H. (University of Auckland) Falloon, Ian R. H. (University of Auckland) Fadden Falloon, Ian R. H. Fadden Falloon, Ian R.h. Fadden Falloon
• Assisted by: Peter J. Tyrer (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.04.1995
• EAN: 9780521499729
• ISBN: 978-0-521-49972-9
• No. of pages: 356
• Series: Studies in Social and Communit; Studies in Social and Community Psychiatry; Studies in Social and Communit
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Non-clinical medicine