Integrated mental health care / Ian R.H. Falloon, Gráinne Fadden ; foreword by Michael Shepherd.
"This challenging book is based on the experience of the pioneering Buckingham project, a comprehensive mental health service focusing on primary care, and describes a new approach to the provision of mental health service to a community. Using the vulnerability-stress model of mental illness,...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
1993.
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| Series: | Studies in social and community psychiatry.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction: who needs community-based care?
- 2. Community management of mental disorders: integrating patients, carers and primary health care with specialist mental health services
- 3. Effective therapeutic strategies
- 4. Early detection of major mental disorders
- 5. Problem-based assessment of functioning
- 6. Crisis intervention and intensive care for acute episodes: creating an asylum at home
- 7. Prevention of recurrent disorders
- 8. Integrated clinical management of the long-term disabled
- 9. Assessment of benefits and costs of the service to the community
- 10. Conclusions and future directions.