Emergency Mental Health Services in the Community Paperback - 2006 - 1st Edition
by Michael Phelan (Editor); Geraldine Strathdee (Editor); Graham Thornicroft (Editor)
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When psychiatric care was based in large psychiatric hospitals there was a limited professional response to what would nowadays be called, a psychiatric emergency - i.e., disturbed patients who, posing a risk to themselves or to others, were taken to hospital and admitted.
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This book provides a comprehensive overview of current understanding about the provision of emergency mental health services in an era of community orientated care. Major research findings and theoretical models which will shape future services are described and illustrated by detailed descriptions of successes both from Europe and North America. A multidisciplinary team of contributors detail the full range of community based schemes including acute respite care, home based care, day hospitals and family placements, as well as the use of accident and emergency departments and acute in-patient wards. The major factors which influence service development are also explored, Including the costs of acute care, the legal framework for emergency mental health work and the views of service users.
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- Title Emergency Mental Health Services in the Community
- Author Michael Phelan (Editor); Geraldine Strathdee (Editor); Graham Thornicroft (Editor)
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 376
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, U.K.
- Date 2006-12-14
- ISBN 9780521034555 / 0521034558
- Weight 1.21 lbs (0.55 kg)
- Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.84 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 2.13 cm)
- Dewey Decimal Code 362.204
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