Overview
""Innovative Approaches for Difficult-to-Treat Populations"" makes recommendations for developing and disseminating innovative mental health services. Geared toward clinicians, administrators and policy makers struggling to develop both clinically effective and cost-effective mental health and substance abuse services, it focuses on services for individuals who utilise the highest proportion of mental health resources and for whom traditional services have not been effective such as: youths with serious behavioural and emotional disturbances and adults with severe and persistent mental illnesses. The innovative approaches reviewed include diverse treatment methods for differing clinical populations. The transition from centralised to community-based care is discussed, and normalising a patient's daily routine as an important factor in the sucess of state-of-the-art community support programmes is emphasised. ""Innvovative Approaches for Difficult-to-Treat Populations"" offers mental health professionals and students a firsthand look at the future direction of clinical services. Policy issues necessary to developing and disseminating progressive treatments are addressed, including the downsizing of state psychiatric hospitals, strategies for reforming state mental hospital systems, and ethical issues in research on child and adolescent mental disorders.
Full Product Details
Author: Schuyler W. Henderson (Bellevue Hospital ) ,
Alberto B. Santos (Medical University of South Carolina ) ,
Alberto B. Santos
Publisher: American Psychiatric Association Publishing
Imprint: American Psychiatric Association Publishing
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 3.40cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.912kg
ISBN: 9780880486804
ISBN 10: 0880486805
Pages: 552
Publication Date: 02 March 1997
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Out of Print
Availability: Out of stock
Reviews
<p> This intriguing and important book challenges our comfortable images of traditional treatment, neatly packaged in 50-minute sessions in the therapist's office. The interventions described here take place in the real-world settings where the clients live their lives and confront their stressors--at home with their families, in shopping malls, and sometimes on the street, in police cars, and even in jail. The treatments are practical and action-oriented, they focus on some of the most challenging conditions mental health workers confront--substance abuse, juvenile delinquency, child neglect, severe mental illness, and others--and there is a refreshing emphasis on empirical assessment of outcomes. The book offers both inspiration and instruction to mental health professionals seeking new approaches to old problems. -- John R. Weisz, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles
I have little doubt that a reader with different interests would recommend alternative chapters. That is the strength of this volume. The editors have successfully compiled a tremendous amount of information on diverse programs for difficult-to-treat patients. It is an excellent text that should provide assistance for almost anybody attempting to develop an effective mental health program. * The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease * If out of all of the confusion and disorder there may still emerge a system of care that is human and efficient, Innovative Approaches for Difficult-to-Treat Populations can serve as a marker in mapping the direction such a system will take. * Readings: A Journal of Reviews and Commentary in Mental Health *
This intriguing and important book challenges our comfortable images of traditional treatment, neatly packaged in 50-minute sessions in the therapist's office. The interventions described here take place in the real-world settings where the clients live their lives and confront their stressors--at home with their families, in shopping malls, and sometimes on the street, in police cars, and even in jail. The treatments are practical and action-oriented, they focus on some of the most challenging conditions mental health workers confront--substance abuse, juvenile delinquency, child neglect, severe mental illness, and others--and there is a refreshing emphasis on empirical assessment of outcomes. The book offers both inspiration and instruction to mental health professionals seeking new approaches to old problems. -- John R. Weisz, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles I have little doubt that a reader with different interests would recommend alternative chapters. That is the strength of this volume. The editors have successfully compiled a tremendous amount of information on diverse programs for difficult-to-treat patients. It is an excellent text that should provide assistance for almost anybody attempting to develop an effective mental health program. -- The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease If out of all of the confusion and disorder there may still emerge a system of care that is human and efficient, Innovative Approaches for Difficult-to-Treat Populations can serve as a marker in mapping the direction such a system will take. -- Readings: A Journal of Reviews and Commentary in Mental Health
This intriguing and important book challenges our comfortable images of traditional treatment, neatly packaged in 50-minute sessions in the therapist's office. The interventions described here take place in the real-world settings where the clients live their lives and confront their stressors--at home with their families, in shopping malls, and sometimes on the street, in police cars, and even in jail. The treatments are practical and action-oriented, they focus on some of the most challenging conditions mental health workers confront--substance abuse, juvenile delinquency, child neglect, severe mental illness, and others--and there is a refreshing emphasis on empirical assessment of outcomes. The book offers both inspiration and instruction to mental health professionals seeking new approaches to old problems. -- John R. Weisz, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles
Author Information
Scott W. Henggeler, Ph.D., works in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Director of the Family Services Research Center at the Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina. Alberto B. Santos, M.D., is currently the Director of the Division of Public Psychiatry and the Director of Psychiatry Residency Training in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina.
