Community Mental Health: Challenges for the 21st Century

Jessica Millet Rosenberg, Samuel Rosenberg

Routledge, 2006 - Medical - 282 pages

Community Mental Health is a significant interdisciplinary resource for students, practitioners, or policy planners, engaged in the evaluation and development of programs in the human services.

Jessica and Sam Rosenberg have carefully pulled together a book containing twenty-two original chapters by leading scholars, consumers, and practitioners in the community mental health field. Together, they offer a wealth of knowledge on the substantial challenges facing contemporary community mental health today.

Packed full with information for both students and practitioners of social work, psychology, sociology, psychiatry, and related disciplines, this comprehensive text includes best practice treatment models for co-occurring disorders, homelessness and mental illness, psychosocial rehabilitation, psychopharmacology, and outpatient treatment. Cutting edge for students and practitioners, this book contains the most up-to-date theory and research about community mental health.

Contents

• Conceptualizing the Challenges in Community Mental Health: 1
• Section I Recovery and the Consumer Movement: 5
• section II Best Practices in Community Mental Health: 59
• Section III Community Mental Health with Underserved Populations: 101
• section IV Mental Illness and the Homeless: 167
• Organizational And Policy Issues: 207
• Glossary: 259
• Contributors: 265
• Index: 271

About the author

Jessica Rosenberg, Ph.D., LCSW, is Assistant Professor of Social Work, Long Island University and Director of its GranCare Center, a program for grandparent caregivers. She holds an MSW from Hunter College School of Social Work and a Ph.D. from Wurzweiler School of Social Work, Yeshiva University. Dr. Rosenberg has practiced for over ten years in inpatient and outpatient settings with clients suffering from serious mental illness.Samuel J. Rosenberg, Ph.D., LCSW, is Professor of Social Work and Sociology, Ramapo College of New Jersey. A scholar and direct practitioner for over 25 years, he has published about diversity, psychoeducation, immigration, and the professional concerns of mental health professionals. He produced the groundbreaking video The Whole Family, a psychoeducational film for Latino families and consumers.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Community Mental Health: Challenges for the 21st Century
• Editors: Jessica Millet Rosenberg, Samuel Rosenberg
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Routledge, 2006
• ISBN: 0415950104, 9780415950107
• Length: 282 pages
• Subjects: Medical / Health Policy; Medical / Mental Health; Medical / Psychiatry / General; Political Science / Public Policy / Health Care; Psychology / Mental Health; Psychology / Psychopathology / General; Psychology / Psychotherapy / General; Social Science / Disasters & Disaster Relief; Social Science / Human Services; Social Science / Social Work; Social Science / Sociology / Urban