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Thrive : how better mental health care transforms lives and saves money / Richard Layard and David M. Clark ; [foreword by Daniel Kahneman].
LIBRA RA790.7.G7 L39 2014
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Layard, Richard, 1934- author.
- Clark, David M. (David Millar), 1954- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mental health services--Great Britain.
- Mental health services.
- Mental health policy.
- Labor economics.
- Mental health.
- Great Britain.
- Mental health--Great Britain.
- Labor economics--Great Britain.
- Mental health policy--Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 374 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Other Title:
- How better mental health care transforms lives and saves money
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2014]
- Contents:
- PART ONE: THE PROBLEM.
- 1. What's the problem?
- 2. What is mental illness?
- 3. How many suffer?
- 4. Do they get help?
- 5. How does it affect people's lives?
- 6. The economic cost
- 7. What causes mental illness?
- PART TWO: WHAT CAN BE DONE?
- 8. Does therapy work?
- 9. How therapies are developed
- 10. What works for whom?
- 11. Can we afford more therapy?
- 12. Improving access to psychological therapies
- 13. What works for young people?
- 14. Can we prevent mental illness?
- 15. Would a better culture help?
- 16. Stop this pain.
- Notes:
- "Original edition first published in the United Kingdom as Thrive: the power of evidence-based psychological therapies by Penguin Books Ltd, London"--Title page verso.
- Includes bibliographical references (page 319-366) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780691169637
- 0691169632
- OCLC:
- 908084057
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