Third Edition of Mental Health Services Text Focuses on Parity, Transformation and Recovery
“This text provides an excellent 'one stop shop' for anyone entering the mental health field and needing to get a comprehensive grounding on mental health care delivery systems.”
-Richard G. Frank, PhD, Harvard University
CBCS Faculty Contributions to Third Edition
Edited by: Bruce Lubotsky Levin, Kevin D. Hennessy, John Petrila
Preface: Bruce Lubotsky Levin, Kevin D. Hennessy, John Petrila
Chapter 1: Public Health Approach to Mental Health - Bruce Lubotsky Levin, Ardis Hanson, Kevin D. Hennessy, John Petrila
Chapter 3: Law, Services Delivery, & Policy - John Petrila, Bruce Lubotsky Levin
Chapter 19: Mental Health Disparities - Junius Gonzales, Airia Sasser Papadopoulos
Chapter 22: The Complexity of Mental Health Research Data - Ardis Hanson, Bruce Lubotsky Levin
There is much promise ahead for change in the delivery of substance abuse and mental health services, with more emphasis placed on parity, transformation, and recovery. With these changes comes a need for clinicians, administrators and others engaged in issues of mental health to stay up to date on the latest research and services to benefit consumers and families.
A new book edited by faculty from the College of Behavioral & Community Sciences reflects new ideas about how to improve mental health services. Mental Health Services: A Public Health Perspective: Third Edition is edited by CBCS Professors Bruce Lubotsky Levin and John Petrila, along with Kevin D. Hennessy from the US Department of Health and Human Services. As described in the book's Foreword, "the focus is no longer on the specialty mental health services sector but on the broad array of human services sectors, where people who experience a mental disorder find themselves as they pursue their lives in communities."
Published by Oxford University Press, the book's 23 chapters include content from authors who are among the worlds' experts in their respective fields. Graduate students in public health, social work, community psychology, psychiatric nursing, and other trainees in community mental health will benefit from the up-to-date material in the book. It will also be useful as a handbook and reference for researchers and other academics, practitioners, administrators, and policymakers.
Features
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Written by national experts in mental and public health
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The book is unique in providing a public health framework of the most significant issues facing mental health policy makers, administrators, planners, and practitioners
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Each chapter closes with a section titled "Implications for Mental Health" that highlights the importance of the chapter for the overall field of mental health services delivery.
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The framework of the text is public health, unlike any other text in the field
Advance Praise
"Our ever-expanding knowledge base in mental health and substance abuse challenges clinicians and administrators to stay up-to-date on the latest research and services to benefit consumers and families. This outstanding book highlights and synthesizes research and service delivery innovations in ways that are both practical and actionable for today's - and tomorrow's - providers."
Linda Rosenberg, MSW, President & Chief Executive Officer, National Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare
"With dramatic changes on the horizon in the way we finance and deliver health and mental health care in this country, we must look to build upon what is already known about providing effective, high quality mental health services. This exceptional book consolidates that knowledge, and should be required reading for anyone designing or implementing health reform changes within public health or mental health systems."
David L. Shern, PhD, President and CEO, Mental Health America
"The Third Edition of Mental Health Services: A Public Health Perspective provides an excellent 'one-stop shop' for anyone entering the mental health field and needing to get a comprehensive grounding on mental health care delivery systems. The volume represents an unusually rich gathering of the perspectives of scholars and high level practitioners. This volume is a must read for faculty, researchers, and policy makers who are engaging in issues of mental health delivery."
Richard G. Frank, PhD, Professor, Harvard University and Deputy Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
The Department of Child and Family Studies (CFS) at the USF College of Behavioral & Community Sciences is committed to improving the well-being of individuals, children, and families within communities across the country through promoting respect, inclusion, development, achievement, mental health, and an optimum quality of life.