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1 online resource (956 pages) |
| Contents |
Foreword; List of Tables; List of Figures; List of Vignettes and other Boxed material; Acronyms; Contributors; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part 1: The Context; 1 Society, Mental Health and Illness; Understanding mental disorder; Introduction; Conceptualising the history of mental disorder; Making sense of mental disorder; Mental health consumer movement; Into the twenty-first century; Responding to mental disorder; Treatment as an emergent idea; Innovation and exnovation; A consumer perspective on mental illness; Speaking out; Disempowerment; A focus on recovery |
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Where did this interest in recovery come from?What is recovery?; Elements of the processes of recovering; Conclusion; 2 How Communities Respond to Mental Distress: A Consumer Perspective; Introduction; Stigma, discrimination, prejudice and oppression; What is normal?; The perpetuation of prejudice; Individual reactions towards those suffering from a 'mental illness'; Families; Community reaction and the myths of 'mental illness'; Mass media; Community 'awareness' campaigns; Living with stigma and prejudice; Prejudice and health systems; The general health system; The mental health system |
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Conclusion3 The Global Perspective; Introduction; The United Nations; The UN Declaration, November 1991; The World Health Organization; WHO work on the epidemiology of mental disorders; The World Bank; The World Bank and the health sector; The global burden of disease; Meeting the challenges of the global mental health need; Conclusion; 4 Delivering Mental Health Care; Understanding mental health care delivery systems and processes; Ethical underpinnings of health care delivery; Relevance of ethical considerations to a chapter on health care systems; Individual medical ethics |
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Rights and legislationFunding mental health care; Justice; Approaches to delivering funds for health care; What to fund? Health utility; Evidence, policy and practice; The nature of progress; Evidence and formation of mental health policy; Structural approaches to fostering links between evidence and practice: academic health centres; The preventive model; Introduction; Levels of prevention; Reducing risk for mental disorder; Benefits and risks; Risk reduction in the larger context of mental health services; Risk and protective factors; How to intervene; The tools of prevention |
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Planning mental health servicesModels of delivery need to be considered against available resource bases; Considering the position of primary care; Matrix model; Transforming services towards a recovery focus; Simulation modelling; Information and mental health care planning; Twenty-first century approaches to management decision-making; Possible futures for simulation modelling; Australian situation considered in the light of these structures; 5 Mental Health Services in Australia; Introduction; Government and mental health services: history and development; Before 1900 |
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The twentieth century to the 1990s |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Mental health -- Australia
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Mental health
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Australia
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Farhall, John
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Fossey, Ellie
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Grigg, Margaret
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Singh, Bruce S
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| ISBN |
9780195523898 |
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019552389X |
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