Description
Book SynopsisTraces how an ever-changing coalition of mental health experts, patients' rights activists, and politicians envisioned the community-based system of psychiatric services. This work shows how policies shifted emphasis from radical reform to incremental change.
Trade ReviewThis is a wonderfully written and clear description of the evolution of mental health policy in America. Grob and Goldman explain how new treatment opportunities have been created at the same time so many are homeless or inappropriately incarcerated. This book is a must read. -- Steven S. Sharfstein, M.D. * American Psychiatric Association and President and CEP, Sheppart Pratt Health Sy *
This is a wonderfully written and clear description of the evolution of mental health policy in America. Grob and Goldman explain how new treatment opportunities have been created at the same time so many are homeless or inappropriately incarcerated. -- Steven S. Sharfstein, M.D. * former president, American Psychiatric Association and president and CEP, Shepp *
Table of ContentsPreface
List of Abbreviations
Prologue
1 Winds of Change
2 Policy Fragmentation
3 A Presidential Initiative
4 From Advocacy to Legislation
5 From Legislative Repeal to Sequential Reform
6 Integration, Parity, and Transformation
Epilogue
Notes
Index
