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This inter-disciplinary study considers the past, present and future of mental health services and community care. From the origins of provision as we know it in the 1960s, it sets out the political, economic and bureaucratic factors behind recent crises and considers what the founding principles of community care tell us about the way forward.

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Introduction Community care: a brief overview The asylum and the community Inquiries Deinstitutionalisation and the penal state Reform or revolution? Mental health legislation and the development of community care International perspectives Neoliberalism, advanced marginality and mental health Conclusion

Mental Health Services and Community Care

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      Publisher: Bristol University Press
      Publication Date: 24/04/2020
      ISBN13: 9781447350590, 978-1447350590
      ISBN10: 1447350596
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      Mental health services Care of people with mental health conditions

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This inter-disciplinary study considers the past, present and future of mental health services and community care. From the origins of provision as we know it in the 1960s, it sets out the political, economic and bureaucratic factors behind recent crises and considers what the founding principles of community care tell us about the way forward.

      Table of Contents
      Introduction Community care: a brief overview The asylum and the community Inquiries Deinstitutionalisation and the penal state Reform or revolution? Mental health legislation and the development of community care International perspectives Neoliberalism, advanced marginality and mental health Conclusion

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