Community Mental Health: Challenges for the 21st Century

by Sylvia Nassar (Foreword), Samuel J. Rosenberg (Editor), Jessica Rosenberg (Editor)

Community Mental Health is a significant interdisciplinary resource for students, practitioners, or policy planners, engaged in the evaluation and development of programs in the human services. Jessica and Sam Rosenberg have carefully pulled together a book containing twenty-two original chapters by leading scholars, consumers, and practitioners in the community mental health field. Together, they offer a wealth of knowledge on the substantial challenges facing contemporary community mental health today. Packed full with information for both students and practitioners of social work, psychology, sociology, psychiatry, and related disciplines, this comprehensive text includes best practice treatment models for co-occurring disorders, homelessness and mental illness, psychosocial rehabilitation, psychopharmacology, and outpatient treatment. Cutting edge for students and practitioners, this book contains the most up-to-date theory and research about community mental health.

Genres: Psychology, Counselling, Nonfiction, Mental Health

300 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 2005

Reviews

[Becca · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was a textbook and I read the entire thing. Shouldn’t that count?? I think it does

[Adrienna · Rating 3 out of 5]

We are reading the 3rd edition of this title, 2018, and out of 22 editions, this is the only one that has both an eBook version and this edition. PSY 610 in the MACP program, required to read for the Community Mental Health course starting April 27 (my great-grandmother's Gran's birthday).

[Gwen Nicodemus · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book was difficult to read. It was full of "One blah." I hate sentences that use One as a subject. There was one paragraph that had more citation in it than actual original thought. I also had trouble because the organization scheme (table of contents and such) didn't make much sense to me.

That said, it's probably perfect for an introductory text for potential mental health professionals.