The dilemma of federal mental health policy : radical reform or incremental change? /

The dilemma of federal mental health policy : radical reform or incremental change? /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Grob, Gerald N., 1931-2015.
Imprint:	New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2006.
Description:	1 online resource (x, 226 pages).
Language:	English
Series:	Critical issues in health and medicine Critical issues in health and medicine.
Subject:	Federal aid to community mental health services. Mental health services. Health care reform. Medical policy. Mental Health Services -- United States. Health Care Reform -- United States. Health Policy -- United States. Legislation, Medical -- United States. Federal aid to community mental health services. Health care reform. Medical policy. Mental health services. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11142259

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Other authors / contributors:	Goldman, Howard H.
ISBN:	9780813541334 0813541336 0813539587 9780813539584
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-216) and index. English. Print version record.
Summary:	Severe and persistent mental illnesses are among the most pressing health and social problems in contemporary America. Recent estimates suggest that more than three million people in the U.S. have disabling mental disorders. The direct and indirect costs of their care exceed 180 billion dollars nationwide each year. Effective treatments and services exist, but many such individuals do not have access to these services because of limitations in mental health and social policies. For nearly two centuries Americans have grappled with the question of how to serve individuals with severe disorders. During the second half of the twentieth century, mental health policy advocates reacted against institutional care, claiming that community care and treatment would improve the lives of people with mental disorders. Once the exclusive province of state governments, the federal government moved into this policy arena after World War II. Policies ranged from those focused on mental disorders, to those that focused more broadly on health and social welfare. In this book, Gerald N. Grob and Howard H. Goldman trace how an ever-changing coalition of mental health experts, patients' rights activists, and politicians envisioned this community-based system of psychiatric services. The authors show how policies shifted emphasis from radical reform to incremental change. Many have benefited from this shift, but many are left without the care they require.
Other form:	Print version: Grob, Gerald N., 1931- Dilemma of federal mental health policy. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2006 0813539587
Standard no.:	10.36019/9780813541334

Table of Contents:

Winds of change
Policy fragmentation
A presidential initiative
From advocacy to legislation
From legislative repeal to sequential reform
Integration, parity, and transformation.