Managed Mental Health Care in the Public Sector: A Survival Manual (Chronic Mental Illness, Vol. 4) [Paperback]

Minkoff (Author)

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Publication Date: February 1, 1997 | ISBN-10: 905702537X | ISBN-13: 978-9057025372 | Edition: 1

Intended as a survival manual for administrators, planners, clinicians and consumers, this work begins with an overview of the history, concepts, ideology, and ethics of public sector managed care and then proceeds in focus from system to programme management to clinical programme levels.

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...a timely, thoughtfully written and imminently useful and usable book...Contributors to this volume represent the most knowledgeable and articulate professionals working in the field...this comprehensive work is, simply, a must read for all those who provide community based care...in any setting and independent of reimbursement source.
–Stephen M. Goldfinger, M.D. of Dept. of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School and Senior Psychiatrists, MA Dept. of Mental Health, Boston, Massachusetts

Addresses the most significant challenges facing behavioral healthcare today...Minkoff and Pollack have indeed broken new ground in this pragmatic volume that serves as an outstanding manual.
–Michael A. Freeman, M.D. of President, The Institute for Behavioral Healthcare, Tiburon, California

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• Paperback: 336 pages
• Publisher: Psychology Press; 1 edition (February 1, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 905702537X
• ISBN-13: 978-9057025372
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.9 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
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4.0 out of 5 stars useful overview, May 9, 2006

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This review is from: Managed Mental Health Care in the Public Sector: A Survival Manual (Chronic Mental Illness, Vol. 4) (Paperback)

This is a useful overview to anyone (patient, independent practitioner, non-profit, local governmental agency, university teaching mental health practitioners, or government agency) that specializes or deals with the delivery of specialty mental health care to persons with serious mental illness. It provides all the various perspectives and identifies many useful pitfalls. And (most importantly) it at least hints at several ways of providing consumer-centered health care in an increasingly managed care environment.

Perhaps the only issue I have with this book is the self-congratulatory tone of several chapters. Some of the contributors were having their contract/proposal reviewed at the time they were writing their chapters and used the chapters (in part) as a kind of "sales pitch" to the government agency. The resulting tone of "look how great and worthy of funding I am" is occasionally distracting from the very real and valuable information contained in this slim volume (including their chapters).

But despite this relatively minor quibble I can honestly say that for anyone dealing with managed mental health care this book should prove invaluable. I recommend it.