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Mental Health Care Delivery
The provision of effective mental health services, at a reasonable cost, to all sections of the population is one of the most pressing problems facing clinicians, planners and administrators of mental health services in the industrialised countries. Changes in paradigms for mental health care delivery are accelerating, and are likely to culminate in the 1990s in major shifts in many countries. This book reviews the emerging patterns of health care delivery in different western countries, outlining the innovations of recent years and analysing some of the impediments to their full implementation. The contributors are all prominent experts in mental health services, whose chapters comprise an ...
Fear and Anxiety
First published in 2001. This is Volume 10 of ten of a series on the science of Mental Health. Originally published in 2001, this study looks at fear and anxiety. During the past decade there has been substantial progress in the understanding of one emotion in particular: fear. There are descriptions of some of the clinical syndromes followed by sections on epidemiology, genetic and environmental risk factors, and natural history (course of illness). Because anxiety disorders so often co-occur with other mental disorders, there is a section devoted to this issue. The volume also includes an article on the evolutionary psychology of anxiety disorders and a long section on brain and behavior t...
Medizin in Wien nach 1945
Die Wiener Medizin, von schweren Belastungen aus der NS-Zeit geprägt, durchlief in der zweiten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts ebenso tiefgreifende wie komplexe Wandlungsprozesse. Hierzu trugen neben wissenschaftlichen Innovationen und Netzwerken auch politische Strukturveränderungen sowie sozioökonomische, rechtliche und kulturelle Entwicklungen bei. Die exemplarische Analyse dieser Transformationen, Neupositionierungen und Interdependenzen ist Gegenstand dieses Buches. Es versammelt hierzu über 40 Autorinnen und Autoren aus Medizin, Medizingeschichte, Pflegegeschichte, Zeitgeschichte, Architekturgeschichte, Ethik, Soziologie, Psychotherapie, Kunst, Kunstgeschichte, Musikwissenschaft und Literaturwissenschaft.
Psychiatry in Society
Psychiatry in Society provides an overview of the recent socio-economic and cultural changes affecting mental health and mental health care. These changes include: The increasing complexity of the economic contexts within which mental health services are funded and delivered The demand for cost-effectiveness evidence The rationing of access to new pharmacotherapies and psychotherapies The emergence of quality of life as an essential criterion in the assessment of health care interventions The growing awareness of the influence of stigma on shaping the long-term course of severe mental disorders The enhanced role of advocacy groups in providing information, advice and support to sufferers. This book will be of interest to psychiatrists and psychologists, mental health workers, managers and policy makers.
