This book provides a comprehensive overview of current understanding about the provision of emergency mental health services in an era of community orientated care. It describes major research findings and theoretical models that will shape future services and illustrates successful services from both Europe and North America. A multidisciplinary team of contributors details the full range of community based services, including acute respite care, home based care, day hospitals, and family placement schemes, as well as the use of accident and emergency departments and acute in-patient wards. They explore the major factors that influence service development, including the costs of acute care, the legal framework for emergency mental health work, and the views of service users.
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'... a timely publication. The editors are to be congratulated for assembling such a comprehensive volume. It should be read by all involved in psychiatry.' Patrick Bracken, Times Higher Education Supplement
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This book provides a comprehensive overview of current understanding about the provision of emergency mental health services in an era of community orientated care. Major research findings and theoretical models which will shape future services are described and illustrated by a multidisciplinary team of contributors using detailed descriptions of successful services both from Europe and North America.All those with an interest in or responsibility for mental health will find this insight of value.
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When psychiatric care was based in large psychiatric hospitals there was a limited professional response to what would nowadays be called, a psychiatric emergency - i.e., disturbed patients who, posing a risk to themselves or to others, were taken to hospital and admitted. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Department of Health, Mental Health Act, British Medical, Archives of General Psychiatry, Home Office, Psychiatric Bulletin, Psychological Medicine, New York, Royal College of Psychiatrists, South Verona, Code of Practice, World Health Organization, Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, Health Advisory Service, Royal Commission, Schizophrenia Bulletin, Brownell House, Cambridge University Press, Institute of Psychiatry, International Journal of Social Psychiatry, North American, Oxford University Press, House of Commons Health Committee, West Germany New!
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When psychiatric care was based in large psychiatric hospitals there was a limited professional response to what would nowadays be called, a psychiatric emergency - i.e., disturbed patients who, posing a risk to themselves or to others, were taken to hospital and admitted. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Department of Health, Mental Health Act, British Medical, Archives of General Psychiatry, Home Office, Psychiatric Bulletin, Psychological Medicine, New York, Royal College of Psychiatrists, South Verona, Code of Practice, World Health Organization, Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, Health Advisory Service, Royal Commission, Schizophrenia Bulletin, Brownell House, Cambridge University Press, Institute of Psychiatry, International Journal of Social Psychiatry, North American, Oxford University Press, House of Commons Health Committee, West Germany New!
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- Community Care Pb by Joanna Bornat on page 59, and page 60
- Clinical Psychology: Integrating Science and Practice by Arthur Freeman on page 145, and page 337
- Police and Criminal Evidence Act (Welsh Language) by Office Home on page 67, and page 80
- Handbook of psychiatric emergencies by Andrew Edmund Slaby on page 6, and page 15
- Psychiatric Services: Report of the Joint Working Group on the Purchasing of Psychiatric Care by Joint Working Group on the Purchasing of Psychiatric Care on page 36, and page 80
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- Acute Care in the Community: Intensive Home Treatment (IHT) as an Alternative to Psychiatric Admission by Neil Brimblecombe on 7 pages
- Homelessness and Mental Health (Studies in Social and Community Psychiatry) by Dinesh Bhugra in Front Matter
- Mental Health Service Evaluation (Studies in Social and Community Psychiatry) by Helle Charlotte Knudsen in Front Matter
- Social Factors in the Personality Disorders: A Biopsychosocial Approach to Etiology and Treatment (Studies in Social and Community Psychiatry) by Joel Paris in Front Matter
- MANAGING MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES (Health Services Management) by REYNOLDS on page 85
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