Emergency Mental Health Services in the Community / Edition 1

by Michael Phelan, Geraldine Strathdee, Graham Thornicroft, Alan Langlands

Overview

This book provides a comprehensive overview of current understanding about the provision of emergency mental health services in an era of community orientated care. It describes major research findings and theoretical models that will shape future services and illustrates successful services from both Europe and North America. A multidisciplinary team of contributors details the full range of community based services, including acute respite care, home based care, day hospitals, and family placement schemes, as well as the use of accident and emergency departments and acute in-patient wards. They explore the major factors that influence service development, including the costs of acute care, the legal framework for emergency mental health work, and the views of service users.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521452519
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	10/12/1995
Series:	Studies in Social and Community Psychiatry
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	376
Product dimensions:	6.18(w) x 9.29(h) x 0.94(d)

About the Author

Phelan, Michael (Institute of Psychiatry, London); Strathdee, Geraldine (Maudsley Hospital); Thornicroft, Graham (Institute of Psychiatry, London)

The contributors represent the specialties of psychiatry, sociology, psychology, public and community health. Twenty-three are from the U.K. (most from London), four are from Europe, and four are from the U.S. Institutions prominently represented include Institute of Psychiatry in London, Yale Univ, and All Saints Hospital in Birmingham.

Table of Contents

Contributors; Foreword; Part I. Principles and Policies: 1. The scope and limitations of emergency mental health services in the community Heinz Katschnig; 2. Service models in emergency psychiatry: an international review Sonia Johnson and Graham Thornicroft; 3. Users' perspective on emergency needs Liz Sayce, Yvonne Christie, Mike Slade and Alison Cobb; 4. Legal aspects of mental health emergencies Ian Bynoe, Adina Halpern and Caroline Bates; 5. The economics of mental health emergency services Paul McCrone; 6. Suicide prevention David Kingdon and Rachel Jenkins; 7. Using the crisis Max Birchwood and Val Drury; 8. Community assessment of crisis Kim Sutherby and George Szmukler; Part II. Challenge of Implementation: 9. Establishing a local emergency service Geraldine Strathdee, Michael Phelan and Ann Watts; 10. Maintaining an emergency service Peter Tyrer; 11. Psychiatric emergencies in the casualty department Sonia Johnson and Howard Baderman; 12. Acute crisis respite care William H Sledge, Jack Tebes and Jaak Rakfeldt; 13. Family placement schemes as an alternative to short-term hospitalisation Russell Bennett; 14. Acute home-based care and community psychiatry Lorenzo Burti and Michele Tansella; 15. Acute day hospital care Francis Creed; 16. Acute in-patient wards Tom Sensky and Jan Scott; 17. The future of mental health emergency services Michael Phelan, Geraldine Strathdee and Graham Thornicroft; Index.

Editorial Reviews

'… a timely publication. The editors are to be congratulated for assembling such a comprehensive volume. It should be read by all involved in psychiatry.' Patrick Bracken, The Times Higher Education Supplement

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