Comparative mental health policy : from institutional to community care. Simon Goodwin.
Material type: TextPublication details: London : SAGE, 1997.Description: 192pISBN:- 9780803977280 (hbk.) :
- 9780803977297 (pbk.) :
- 0803977298
- 362.2 GOO
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Includes index
Introduction: Part 1: The origins and development of mental health services--1. Postwar mental health policy--Part 2: The analysis of mental health services:- Introduction--2. Orthodox accounts of the policy shift--3. Radical accounts of the policy shift--4. Problems and issues within existing accounts--5. Specialization, accessibility and variation: themes in the analysis of postwar mental health policy--Part 3: Problems and issues-- Introduction--6. Problems and issues in community care--7. Service development issues--8. Conclusion: which way forward? Mental health services for the new millennium.
This work provides an analysis of the policy shift in UK, Europe and North America from institutional to community care, and its consequences in practice.