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Record Nr.

UNINA9910144725503321

Titolo

40 years of academic public psychiatry [[electronic resource] /] / editors, Selby C. Jacobs and Ezra E.H. Griffith

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chichester, West Sussex ; ; Hoboken, NJ, : J. Wiley, c2007

ISBN

1-281-32036-6

9786611320362

0-470-99458-4

0-470-99457-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (240 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

JacobsSelby <1939->

GriffithEzra E. H. <1942->

Disciplina

362.2/209746

616.89

Soggetti

Community psychiatry - Connecticut - History

Community mental health services - Connecticut - History

Academic medical centers - Connecticut - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

40 Years of Academic Public Psychiatry; Table of contents; Foreword; Introduction: The Connecticut Mental Health Center as a public psychiatry initiative; 1: Severe and persistent mental illness; 2: Connecticut Mental Health Center: clinical, research and training programs in the addictions; 3: Law and Psychiatry at the Connecticut Mental Health Center; 4: The neuroscience research program at the Connecticut Mental Health Center; 5: Psychiatric epidemiology, services research, prevention and public health

6: Ethnicity, mental health care disparities and culturally competent care at the Connecticut Mental Health Center7: A public-academic partnership at the Connecticut Mental Health Center; 8: Public psychiatry training and education at the Connecticut Mental Health Center; 9: The future of academic public psychiatry; Epilogue: Academic-public partnership from a British perspective; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Describes an outstanding training programme in public psychiatry developed by the Connecticut Mental Health CenterA worthwhile and



valuable contribution to the field that has no current equivalent in the marketThe book suggests a plan for the future of public sector psychiatry and serves as a model to centers throughout North America and further afieldDescribes the impact of the Connecticut Mental Health Center on psychiatric service models in the public sector