Dilemma of Federal Mental Health Policy - Radical Reform Or Incremental Change?

Informationen zum Autor Grob, Gerald N Klappentext Traces how an ever-changing coalition of mental health experts, patients' rights activists, and politicians envisioned the community-based system of psychiatric services. This work shows how policies shifted emphasis from radical reform to incremental change. Zusammenfassung Traces how an ever-changing coalition of mental health experts! patients' rights activists! and politicians envisioned the community-based system of psychiatric services. This work shows how policies shifted emphasis from radical reform to incremental change. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface List of Abbreviations Prologue 1 Winds of Change 2 Policy Fragmentation 3 A Presidential Initiative 4 From Advocacy to Legislation 5 From Legislative Repeal to Sequential Reform 6 Integration, Parity, and Transformation Epilogue Notes Index

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• Authors: Howard H Goldman, Howard H. Goldman, Gerald N Grob, Gerald N. Grob, Gerald N. Goldman Grob
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.11.2006
• EAN: 9780813539584
• ISBN: 978-0-8135-3958-4
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Critical Issues in Health and; Critical Issues in Health and Medicine Series; Critical Issues in Health and; Critical Issues in Health and Medicine Series
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political system