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Healing the Broken Mind: Transforming America's Failed Mental Health System
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Overview
Timothy A. Kelly, former Commissioner of Virginia’s Department of Mental Health, Retardation, and Substance Abuse, brings his three decades of experience as mental health commissioner, psychology professor, and clinician to bear in confronting this crisis in America’s mental health care system. In clear and accessible terms, he exposes the weaknesses in the current system, examining how and why one of the world’s richest and most advanced countries has allowed its most vulnerable citizens to be victimized by the very system designed to help them.
Armed with the latest statistics, a lifetime of experience, and heartrending life stories, Kelly argues that the patchwork of care traditionally employed to treat mental illness is simply not up to the task, and that what we need is profound, fundamental, and system-wide change. He then goes on to provide an easy-to-follow road map for achieving lasting transformation, centered on five recommendations for creating a truly effective mental health system of care that enables patients to achieve a lasting recovery.
Mental illness is not going to just go away, but Kelly prescribes a comprehensive plan to make treatment accessible and effective so that those who suffer can rejoin their families and their communities. He shows how a transformed system of community-based care allows those with serious mental illness to finally be able to go home.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780814748121 |
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Publisher: | New York University Press |
Publication date: | 08/01/2009 |
Pages: | 214 |
Product dimensions: | 6.10(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.80(d) |
About the Author
Table of Contents
AcknowledgementsList of Abbreviations
1 Men in Diapers: A System in Shambles
2 That Which Is Measured Improves
3 Monopolies Don’t Work
4 Fair Is Fair: Parity for Mental Health Coverage
5 Let the People Speak
6 Transforming America’s Mental Health System
Postscript—Information on Mental Illness
Notes
References
Index
About the Author
What People are Saying About This
"Kelly understands the mental health system with all its warts. His approach to repairing its ills is as radical as some of the major reformers of mental health treatment in history. Don't be misled by Kelly's insistence on data to support mental health treatment. This book is not dull. It is a refreshing, creative, consumer-friendly manifesto for the United States to treat its people who have serious mental illness with dignity."
-Everett L. Worthington, Jr.,Virginia Commonwealth University
"An excellent look at mental health policy and services. Kelly tells us where we are and, more importantly, where we need to be to provide quality mental health services to both served and under served populations."
-Robert J. Resnick,Former President, American Psychological Association
"Healing the Broken Mind is based on Kelly's research as well as his personal experience as Commissioner for the Virginia Department of Mental Health. It provides significant insights into the persistent problems of mental health services and identifies an excellent set of solutions that will ameliorate these problems. An important read for the general public, consumers, and policy makers."
-Len Bickman,Psychiatry and Public Policy, Vanderbilt University
"A thoughtful introduction to a subject that's often shunted aside in the health care reform debate. "
-Miller-McCune
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“Kelly offers a workable line of march for mental-health consumers, families, communities and political-decision makers. . .the book remains valuable and of interest to all mental-health practicioners (psychiatrists, social workers, psychologists, and counselors) and policy makers.”
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