Inside public psychiatry / Selby C. Jacobs.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jacobs, Selby, 1939- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Connecticut Mental Health Center.

Community mental health services--Connecticut.

Community mental health services.

Academic medical centers--Connecticut.

Academic medical centers.

Community psychiatry--Connecticut--History.

Community psychiatry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (244 p.)

Place of Publication:

Shelton, Connecticut : People's Medical Publishing House, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Given the current implementation of mental health parity in insurance benefits and the enactment of healthcare reform, this book is essential reading for anyone wanting to understand both the historical context of public psychiatry and what the future might hold. Most people with serious mental illness are seen in the public sector of psychiatry, and the significance of psychiatric treatment in the public sector is best understood one person at a time. This book tells the story of public psychiatry with examples from the author's experience running Connecticut Mental Health Center (CMHC), one of the country's premier public mental health centers. It covers four major periods in modern public psychiatry, bringing the reader up to the present and providing a view of future directions. CMHC is unique in that it is an academic community mental health center affiliated with Yale University School of Medicine. Because CMHC has provided a successful community psychiatry program for over 40 years, it serves as a case history of modern public psychiatry since 1966. This book also informs practice and policy formation for public psychiatry and provides a perspective on services in the public system, a discussion of several key policy issues, and how these will influence future policy and, therefore, practice. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care legislation of 2010 has been incorporated to bring the book up to the moment.

Contents:

A brief history of modern public psychiatry

The state-university partnership and the Connecticut Mental health Center

The CMHC and services during the community mental health movement, 1966-82

The CMHC and services during the system development period, 1982-93

The CMHC and services during the period of mainstreaming, 1993-2003

The CMHC and services during the period of transformation, 2003-present

Future directions in public psychiatry and conclusion.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-60795-208-4

OCLC:

893679779