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"All Americans are concerned about the cost of health care and mental-health care, since none of us are immune to chronic disease, disability associated with aging, or psychological disorders. Jason and Perdoux present a relatively low-cost and effective solution that is growing in neighborhoods across the country: true community. People are forming grassroots communities to meet one another's needs and bring a higher quality of life than that of...
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"While mental illness and mental health care are increasingly recognized and accepted in today's society, awareness of the most severely mentally ill--as well as those who care for them--is still dominated by stereotypes. Managing Madness in the Community dispels the myth. Readers will see how treatment options often depend on the social status, race, and gender of both clients and carers; how ideas in the field of mental health care--conflicting...
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In the 1960's Mental Hospitals were seen as oppressing people who were "not really ill, just different." As a result these people have gone without needed treatment and make up a large portion of the homeless.
Simply blaming the process of "deinstitutionalization" has been a convenient shorthand to explain away the tragedy of how thousands of mentally ill people were committed to life on the streets. Such a one-dimensional view fails, however, to...
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Dr. Harold Koenig is the brand in the growing field of spirituality and health. His groundbreaking research has been featured on national and international television and radio shows, on the covers of magazines, and in the headlines of newspapers. Now he opens a window on mental health, providing an unprecedented source of practical information about the relationship between religion mental health. Dr. Koenig examines how Christianity and other...
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