Mental Health Care Delivery: Innovations, Impediments and Implementation

by Isaac Marks (Editor), Robert A. Scott (Editor)

This volume reviews the emerging patterns of mental health care delivery in different western countries, outlining the innovations of recent years and analyzing some of the impediments to their full implementation. The provision of effective mental health care services to all sections of the population at a reasonable cost is one of the most pressing problems facing clinicians, planners and administrators. This text is composed of three sections. Part I describes numerous innovations in the community care of psychiatric patients, while Part II examines the main impediments to the systematic implementation. Part III integrates the book, provides an overview, and details some specific issues in the implementation of innovation in mental health care delivery.

280 pages, Hardcover

First published August 31, 1990