1. From stigma to recovery. Recovery and stigma in people with psychiatric disabilities -- Marginal no more: serious mental illness, sexual orientation, and gender preference -- Where do we go from here? The mental health consumer movement in the United States -- 2. Emerging trends in community mental health. Emerging community mental health challenges: meeting the needs of veterans and families impacted by military service -- Community mental health: innovations in diversion from prosecution of people with mental illness -- 3. Community mental health across the life cycle. Community mental health with children and youth -- Family psychoeducation in the treatment of mental illness: historical context, current practice, and future directions -- Meeting the mental health challenges of the elder boom -- 4. Diversity and community mental health. African Americans, racism, and mental health -- Community mental health services to Asian Americans -- Community mental health services to Latinos -- Community mental health: cross-cultural mental health response in disasters -- 5. Best practices in community mental health. Assertive community treatment: an evidence-based practice and its continuing evolution -- Evidence-based treatment for adults with co-occurring mental and substance use disorders: current practice and future directions -- Neuropsychiatric perspectives on community mental health: theory and practice -- Case management strategies that target high-risk homeless subpopulations -- 6. Community mental health - organizational and policy issues. Community mental health: policy and practice -- "The times they are a changin' - again" : more turbulence - even greater challenges.
Summary:
This volume introduces reader to mental health practice in community settings. Experts from a wide range of professions - social work, nursing, psychology, psychiatry, public health, sociology, and law - explore the major trends, best practices, and policy issues shaping community mental health services today. In their coverage of each topic the authors focus on shifting the focus from management to recovery in the treatment of chronically mentally ill patients. New chapters address best practices with distinct populations of clients, including veterans, children and youth, Latinos, and those affected by the Great Recession. The target audience is students preparing to become mental health professionals, practitioners in community mental health settings, and policy planners and advocates engaged in the evaluation and development of programs in the human services.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.