Table of Contents

Introduction
1: Bob Drake, George Szmukler, Kim Mueser & Graham Thornicroft: Introduction to community mental health?
Origins of 'community psychiatry'
2: Nikolas Rose: Historical changes in mental health practice
3: Gerald Grob: Mental health policy in modern America
4: Mike Slade & Larry Davidson: Recovery as an integrative paradigm in mental health
Needs: perspectives and assessment
5: Peter Jones, Glyn H. Lewis, Hollie V. Thomas & Mary Cannon: Mental illnesses at the population level
6: Philip Wang: Treated and untreated prevalence of mental disorder
7: Martin Prince: The global burden of mental disorder
8: Peggy Swarbrick: Expertise from experience: mental health recovery and wellness
9: Mike Slade, Graham Thornicroft & Michele Tansella: Measuring the needs of people with mental illness
10: Craig Morgan: Mental health, ethnicity and cultural diversity: evidence and challenges
11: Richard F. Mollica & Maya Semrau: Responding to migration and upheaval
Service components
12: Graham Thornicroft,, Michele Tansella & Robert E, Drake: Organising the range of community mental health services
13: Sonia Johnson, Jonathan Totman & Lorna Hobbs: Crisis and emergency services
14: Paddy Power & Pat McGorry: Early interventions for people with psychotic disorders
15: Helen Killaspy & Alan Rosen: Case management and assertive community treatment
16: Thomas Becker & Markus Koesters: Psychiatric out-patient clinics
17: Aart Schene: Day hospital and partial hospitalisation programmes
18: Deborah R. Becker, Gary R. Bond,& Robert E. Drake: Individual placement and support: the evidence-based practice of supported employment
19: Frank Holloway & Lloyd I. Sederer: In-patient treatment
20: Geoff Shepherd & Rob Macpherson: Residential care
21: Amy L. Drapalski & Lisa B. Dixon: Programmes to support family members and caregivers
22: Jonathan Shaywitz & Stephen Marder: Medication management
23: Delia Cimpean: Managing co-occurring physical disorders in mental heath care
24: Kim Mueser and Susan Gingerich: Self-management programmes
Ethical and legal aspects
25: Abraham Rudnick, Cheryl Forchuk & George Szmulker: Ethical framework for community mental health
26: Oliver Lewis and Peter Bartlett: International human rights and community mental health
27: George Szmukler & Paul Appelbaum: Treatment pressures, coercion and compulsion
Stigma and discrimination
28: Tony Jorm: Public knowledge and awareness about mental illnesses
29: Bruce Link, Matthias Angermeyer & Jo Phelan: Public attitudes towards people with mental illness
30: Graham Thornicroft & Nisha Mehta: Reducing stigma and discriminatory behaviour
Policies and the funding
31: Harvey Whiteford: Shaping national mental health policies
32: Michelle Funk, Jodi Morris & Shekhar Saxena: Using information and evidence to improve mental health care
33: Daniel Chisholm & Martin Knapp: Funding mental health services
Assessing the evidence for effectiveness
34: Peter Tyrer: Research designs and evaluating treatment interventions
35: Rob Whitley: Qualitative research methods in mental health
36: Andrea Cipriani & Corrado Barbui: Understanding and using systematic literature reviews
37: Kim T. Mueser & Robert E. Drake: Developing Evidence-Based Mental Health Practices
38: R. Srinivasa Murthy: Mental health services in low and middle income countries
Methods for insuring that effective care is provided
39: Troy A. Moore, Alexander L. Miller & Elizabeth Kuipers: Producing guidelines, protocols and toolkits
40: Amy Cheung, Paula Whitty, Martin P. Eccles & Jeremy Grimshaw: Implementing guidelines
41: Benedetto Saraceno, Mark van Ommeren & Rajaie Batniji: Overcoming impediments to community mental health in low and middle income countries
42: William C. Torrey & Mary F. Brunette: The challenge of integrated care at the programme level
Looking to the Future
43: Graham Thornicroft, Robert E. Drake, Kim T. Mueser & George Szmukler: Summing up: community mental health in the future

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About the Author

Robert E. Drake, is the Andrew Thomson Professor of Psychiatry and Community and Family Medicine at Dartmouth Medical School and the Director of the Dartmouth Psychiatric Research Center. He was educated at Princeton, Duke, and Harvard Universities; he has been Dartmouth for over 26 years. He continues to work actively as a community mental health doctor. He supervises a large number of students, post-doctoral trainees, and junior faculty. His research focuses
on people with serious mental illnesses and services that help their recovery, primarily in the areas of co-occurring disorders, vocational rehabilitation, health services research, and evidence-based
practices. Current projects include developing and studying electronic decision support systems to enhance communications and shared decision making between clients and clinicians; randomized controlled trials of services for clients with first psychotic episodes and for clients with co-occurring substance use disorders.

Reviews

This sets the standard for future books in this area. Several chapters covered areas in which I had little knowledge, and they did a good job of presenting the information.
*Doody's*