Advocacy for Mental Health
Advocacy for Mental Health

Author: World Health Organization

Publisher: World Health Organization

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 67

ISBN-13: 9241545909

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This volume is part of a series of publications which contain practical guidance to assist policy-makers and planners in member countries with policy development to address public mental health needs and service provision. This volume highlights the importance of advocacy in mental health policy and service development, a relatively new concept, aimed at reducing stigma and discrimination, and promoting the human rights of people with mental disorders. It considers the roles of various mental health groups in advocacy and sets out practical steps for implementation, indicating how governments can support advocacy services. The full package of eight volumes in the series is also available (ISBN 0119894173).

Guidance and technical packages on community mental health services
Guidance and technical packages on community mental health services

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Publisher: World Health Organization

Published: 2021-06-10

Total Pages: 8

ISBN-13: 9240025685

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The Executive Summary of the WHO Guidance and technical packages on community mental health services: Promoting person-centred and rights-based approaches outlines the set of publications that provides information and support to all stakeholders who wish to develop or transform their mental health system and services to align with international human rights standards including the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. The main reference source for all stakeholders is the Guidance on community mental health services: Promoting person-centred and rights-based approaches this document provides a detailed description of person-centred and human rights-based approaches in mental health, and summary examples of good practice services around the world and recommendations for integrating such services into national health and social care systems and services. This comprehensive document is accompanied by a set of seven technical packages focused on specific categories of mental health services and guidance for setting up new services. This guidance aims to empower governments, policy makers, health and social care professionals, nongovernmental organizations, organizations of persons with disabilities and other stakeholders, to introduce and scale up good practice in mental health services that protect and promote human rights, ultimately improving the lives of people with mental health conditions and psychosocial disabilities everywhere.

Best Practices in Community Mental Health
Best Practices in Community Mental Health

Author: Vikki Vandiver

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2013-06

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780190615239

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Best Practices in Community Mental Health: A Pocket Guide is a quick reference guide to best practices that are essential for providing comprehensive, holistic care. Intended for use across a wide range of disciplines within mental health-social work, counseling, psychiatric nursing and rehabilitation, public psychiatry-the pocket guide offers a well-rounded foundation of services that can be adapted to each practice setting. This comprehensive but compact overview lends itself well to in-service trainings and makes an ideal companion for students in mental health internships and practicums. The accessible, actionable format spares busy professionals the need to hunt through long textbooks and articles for the information they need right away. This pocket guide is the first book of its kind to compile such a diverse set of practices, providing essential theory and background for each one, along with a review of available evidence, steps for implementation, and strategies for assessment and evaluation. Each chapter opens with a case study that provides an insider's perspective and closes with a glossary and links to online resources.

Modern Community Mental Health
Modern Community Mental Health

Author: Kenneth Yeager

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2013-03-21

Total Pages: 642

ISBN-13: 0199798060

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This is the first truly interdisciplinary book that examines how professionals work together within community mental health. It takes into account the key concepts of community mental health and combines them with current technology to develop an effective formula that redefines the community mental health practice.

Common Mental Health Disorders
Common Mental Health Disorders

Author: National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health (Great Britain)

Publisher: RCPsych Publications

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 9781908020314

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Bringing together treatment and referral advice from existing guidelines, this text aims to improve access to services and recognition of common mental health disorders in adults and provide advice on the principles that need to be adopted to develop appropriate referral and local care pathways.