A Role of the Federal Government in Mental Health
Author | : Pierre G. Martel |
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Total Pages | : 100 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Mental health services |
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Author | : Pierre G. Martel |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 100 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Mental health services |
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Author | : Canada. Department of National Health and Welfare |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 99 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : |
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Author | : Committee for the Study of the Future of Public Health |
Publisher | : National Academies Press |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 1988-01-15 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 0309581907 |
"The Nation has lost sight of its public health goals and has allowed the system of public health to fall into 'disarray'," from The Future of Public Health. This startling book contains proposals for ensuring that public health service programs are efficient and effective enough to deal not only with the topics of today, but also with those of tomorrow. In addition, the authors make recommendations for core functions in public health assessment, policy development, and service assurances, and identify the level of government--federal, state, and local--at which these functions would best be handled.
Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Human Resources and Intergovernmental Relations Subcommittee |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Federal aid to community mental health services |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Pierre G. Martel |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 100 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Mental health |
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Author | : Bertram S. Brown |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Medical education |
ISBN | : |
Author | : E. Fuller Torrey |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 219 |
Release | : 2013-08-22 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 0199361126 |
In 1963, President John F. Kennedy delivered an historic speech on mental illness and retardation. He described sweeping new programs to replace "the shabby treatment of the many millions of the mentally disabled in custodial institutions" with treatment in community mental health centers. This movement, later referred to as "deinstitutionalization," continues to impact mental health care. Though he never publicly acknowledged it, the program was a tribute to Kennedy's sister Rosemary, who was born mildly retarded and developed a schizophrenia-like illness. Terrified she'd become pregnant, Joseph Kennedy arranged for his daughter to receive a lobotomy, which was a disaster and left her severely retarded. Fifty years after Kennedy's speech, E. Fuller Torrey's book provides an inside perspective on the birth of the federal mental health program. On staff at the National Institute of Mental Health when the program was being developed and implemented, Torrey draws on his own first-hand account of the creation and launch of the program, extensive research, one-on-one interviews with people involved, and recently unearthed audiotapes of interviews with major figures involved in the legislation. As such, this book provides historical material previously unavailable to the public. Torrey examines the Kennedys' involvement in the policy, the role of major players, the responsibility of the state versus the federal government in caring for the mentally ill, the political maneuverings required to pass the legislation, and how closing institutions resulted not in better care - as was the aim - but in underfunded programs, neglect, and higher rates of community violence. Many now wonder why public mental illness services are so ineffective. At least one-third of the homeless are seriously mentally ill, jails and prisons are grossly overcrowded, largely because the seriously mentally ill constitute 20 percent of prisoners, and public facilities are overrun by untreated individuals. As Torrey argues, it is imperative to understand how we got here in order to move forward towards providing better care for the most vulnerable.
Author | : E. Fuller Torrey |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 219 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 0199988714 |
E. Fuller Torrey's book provides an insider's perspective on the birth of the federal mental health program.
Author | : National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health (Great Britain) |
Publisher | : RCPsych Publications |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Health services accessibility |
ISBN | : 9781908020314 |
Bringing together treatment and referral advice from existing guidelines, this text aims to improve access to services and recognition of common mental health disorders in adults and provide advice on the principles that need to be adopted to develop appropriate referral and local care pathways.