Mental Health and Social Policy: Beyond Managed Care

ISBN-10: 0205545939
ISBN-13: 9780205545933
Series: Mental Health and Social Policy
Category: Political Science / Public Policy / Social Services & Welfare
Pages: 320
Language: English
Published: 2008
Publisher: Pearson/Allyn and Bacon
Author: David Mechanic

Description

The fifth edition text of Mental Health and Social Policy takes a multidisciplinary approach to mental health and social policy.

It covers mental health issues and includes important new epidemiological studies, controlled clinical trials, and other investigations that inform the new thrust for evidence-based mental health services. It also covers cutting-edge new information on disparities in mental health care coverage, pharmaceutical companies and the marketing of drugs, PTSD in the wake of the Iraq war and 9/11, the Surgeon General Report on Mental health, the Bush New Freedom commission, and the criminalization of mental illness.

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Mental Health and Social Policy: Beyond Managed Care
- 2013-05-14
- 408 pages
- Ebook
- Pearson Higher Ed
Mental Health and Social Policy: Beyond Managed Care
- 2013
- 408 pages
- Paperback
- Pearson College Division
Mental Health and Social Policy: Beyond Managed Care
- 2013
- 350 pages
- Paperback
- Pearson College Division
Mental Health and Social Policy: The Emergence of Managed Care
- 1999
- 289 pages
- Paperback
- Allyn & Bacon

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