Download or read book Community Mental Health Centers Act Amendments written by United States and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ending Discrimination Against People with Mental and Substance Use Disorders written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2016-09-03 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Estimates indicate that as many as 1 in 4 Americans will experience a mental health problem or will misuse alcohol or drugs in their lifetimes. These disorders are among the most highly stigmatized health conditions in the United States, and they remain barriers to full participation in society in areas as basic as education, housing, and employment. Improving the lives of people with mental health and substance abuse disorders has been a priority in the United States for more than 50 years. The Community Mental Health Act of 1963 is considered a major turning point in America's efforts to improve behavioral healthcare. It ushered in an era of optimism and hope and laid the groundwork for the consumer movement and new models of recovery. The consumer movement gave voice to people with mental and substance use disorders and brought their perspectives and experience into national discussions about mental health. However over the same 50-year period, positive change in American public attitudes and beliefs about mental and substance use disorders has lagged behind these advances. Stigma is a complex social phenomenon based on a relationship between an attribute and a stereotype that assigns undesirable labels, qualities, and behaviors to a person with that attribute. Labeled individuals are then socially devalued, which leads to inequality and discrimination. This report contributes to national efforts to understand and change attitudes, beliefs and behaviors that can lead to stigma and discrimination. Changing stigma in a lasting way will require coordinated efforts, which are based on the best possible evidence, supported at the national level with multiyear funding, and planned and implemented by an effective coalition of representative stakeholders. Ending Discrimination Against People with Mental and Substance Use Disorders: The Evidence for Stigma Change explores stigma and discrimination faced by individuals with mental or substance use disorders and recommends effective strategies for reducing stigma and encouraging people to seek treatment and other supportive services. It offers a set of conclusions and recommendations about successful stigma change strategies and the research needed to inform and evaluate these efforts in the United States.
Download or read book Community Mental Health Centers Act written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Subcommittee on Health and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Madness in Civilization written by Andrew Scull and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-06 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: London: Thames & Hudson Ltd, 2015.
Download or read book Improving the Quality of Health Care for Mental and Substance Use Conditions written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2006-03-29 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each year, more than 33 million Americans receive health care for mental or substance-use conditions, or both. Together, mental and substance-use illnesses are the leading cause of death and disability for women, the highest for men ages 15-44, and the second highest for all men. Effective treatments exist, but services are frequently fragmented and, as with general health care, there are barriers that prevent many from receiving these treatments as designed or at all. The consequences of this are seriousâ€"for these individuals and their families; their employers and the workforce; for the nation's economy; as well as the education, welfare, and justice systems. Improving the Quality of Health Care for Mental and Substance-Use Conditions examines the distinctive characteristics of health care for mental and substance-use conditions, including payment, benefit coverage, and regulatory issues, as well as health care organization and delivery issues. This new volume in the Quality Chasm series puts forth an agenda for improving the quality of this care based on this analysis. Patients and their families, primary health care providers, specialty mental health and substance-use treatment providers, health care organizations, health plans, purchasers of group health care, and all involved in health care for mental and substanceâ€"use conditions will benefit from this guide to achieving better care.
Download or read book Community Mental Health Centers Amendments of 1969 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Labor and Public Welfare and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book From Asylum to Community written by Gerald N. Grob and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The distinguished historian of medicine Gerald Grob analyzes the post-World War II policy shift that moved many severely mentally ill patients from large state hospitals to nursing homes, families, and subsidized hotel rooms--and also, most disastrously, to the streets. On the eve of the war, public mental hospitals were the chief element in the American mental health system. Responsible for providing both treatment and care and supported by major portions of state budgets, they employed more than two-thirds of the members of the American Psychiatric Association and cared for nearly 98 percent of all institutionalized patients. This study shows how the consensus for such a program vanished, creating social problems that tragically intensified the sometimes unavoidable devastation of mental illness. Examining changes in mental health care between 1940 and 1970, Grob shows that community psychiatric and psychological services grew rapidly, while new treatments enabled many patients to lead normal lives. Acute services for the severely ill were expanded, and public hospitals, relieved of caring for large numbers of chronic or aged patients, developed into more active treatment centers. But since the main goal of the new policies was to serve a broad population, many of the most seriously ill were set adrift without even the basic necessities of life. By revealing the sources of the euphemistically designated policy of "community care," Grob points to sorely needed alternatives. Originally published in 1991. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Download or read book The Shame of the States written by Albert Deutsch and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Expose on the deplorable conditions in state mental hospitals, including overcrowding, understaffing, inadequate budgets, lack of adequate treatment facilities, etc. It consists mostly of pieces written for the New York newspaper PM and its successor the Star, as well as some less journalistic content, written from 1940-1948.
Download or read book Modern Community Mental Health written by Kenneth Yeager and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-03-21 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first truly interdisciplinary book that examines how professionals work together within community mental health. It takes into account the key concepts of community mental health and combines them with current technology to develop an effective formula that redefines the community mental health practice.
Download or read book Mental Hospitalization written by Charles A. Kiesler and published by SAGE Publications, Incorporated. This book was released on 1987-07 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mental Hospitalization is the most thorough and integrated analysis yet attempted of data on hospitalization for mental disorders. The authors look at mental health policy in general and mental hospitalization in particular. They re-analyse the US national database and consider whether the practice of hospitalization matches up to expectations.
Download or read book Community Mental Health Centers Amendments of 1969 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Subcommittee on Health and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considers S. 2523, to amend the Community Mental Health Centers Act to extend and increase Federal assistance for construction and staffing of mental health facilities.
Download or read book Community Mental Health Centers Act Extension Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Public Health and Welfare 91 1 on H R 14617 H R 13163 H R 13609 and H R 14086 Nov 18 19 and 29 1969 written by United States. Congress. House. Interstate and Foreign Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Community Mental Health Centers Act Extension written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Subcommittee on Public Health and Welfare and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Comprehensive Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism Prevention Treatment and Rehabilitation Act Amendments 1973 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Labor and Public Welfare and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Comprehensive Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism Prevention Treatment and Rehabilitation Act Amendments 1973 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Subcommittee on Alcoholism and Narcotics and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Drug Abuse Office and Treatment Act Amendments of 1975 Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Health and Environment of 94 1 June 10 11 1975 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Mental Hygiene Movement written by Clifford Whittingham Beers and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
