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Mental Health And Social Policy (prentice-hall Series In Social Policy) by David Mechanic is a book available to read on EtoBox.

xiii, 171 pages 23 cm Discusses the need for mental health efforts Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-166) Chapter 1: Mental health and the mental health professions -- Chapter 2: What are mental health and mental illness -- Chapter 3: Psychological disorder and the flow of patients into treatment: the study of psychiatric epidemiology -- Chapter 4: Conceptions of the causes of and means of controlling mental illness -- Chapter 5: The development of mental health policy in the United States -- Chapter 6: The recognition of mental disorders -- Chapter 7: Coping and social adaptation: implications for mental health practice -- Chapter 8: Central perspectives in formulating mental health policies -- Chapter 9: The financing of mental health services -- Chapter 10: The social context of mental health practice: ethical issues -- Chapter 11: Innovations in mental health services -- Chapter 12: Mental illness, the community, and the law

Author

David Mechanic

Publisher

Prentice-Hall; Prentice Hall

Published

1969

Language

EN

ISBN

9780135760178

Subjects

Medical, Medicine