Comparative Mental Health Policy: From Institutional to Community CareThis book presents a comparative analysis of mental health policy in Western Europe and North America. It also considers how and why different policies have developed. Simon Goodwin examines the transition from institutional to community-based models of care for people with mental health problems, identifying variations in the inception, pace and style in which community-based service provision has emerged in different countries. Goodwin also assesses the problems and issues that have arisen as a result of the shift towards more community-based systems of care and treatment, and argues that it is a policy made up of conflicting aims and purposes, which is reflected in its implementation. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
THE ANALYSIS OF MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES | 26 |
Radical accounts of the policy shift | 53 |
Copyright | |
7 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Comparative Mental Health Policy: From Institutional to Community Care Simon Goodwin No preview available - 1997 |
Common terms and phrases
amongst anti-psychiatry argued asylum behaviour Belgium cent clinics Cockerham community care policy community mental health Community Psychiatry community-based services concern considerable costs deinstitutionalization Denmark disabled discharged patients economic effect emphasis England Europe and North evidence expenditure facilities France Germany groups health service provision homeless hospital bed space increasingly informal carers Italy lack long-term Luterbach Manderscheid Mangen ment mental disorder mental health centres mental health policy mental health problems mental health services mental hospital bed mental hospital population mental illness mental patients Netherlands neuroleptic North America OECD old mental hospitals out-patient Overall patterns policy development policy shift programmes psychiatric hospitals psychiatric profession psychiatric services psychiatric units psychotropic drugs range reduced regimes rehabilitation relationship relatively responsibility result role schizophrenia Scull sector service users Social Psychiatry Sweden tardive dyskinesia tended tion trends twentieth century Western Europe World Health Organization