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The Mental Health Matrix Graham Thornicroft (Institute of Psychiatry, London)

The Mental Health Matrix By Graham Thornicroft (Institute of Psychiatry, London)

The Mental Health Matrix by Graham Thornicroft (Institute of Psychiatry, London)


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This book is a manual for the evidence-based direction of services towards increased clinical effectiveness. A unique model is described through which a better understanding of mental health services can be developed. The model's wide-ranging practical applications in the diagnosis of service strengths and weaknesses are fully detailed.

The Mental Health Matrix Summary

The Mental Health Matrix: A Manual to Improve Services by Graham Thornicroft (Institute of Psychiatry, London)

There have been major changes to mental health services internationally in recent years revolving around the concept of care in the community. Although speed of change and precise service mechanisms differ between countries there is nevertheless increasingly widespread consensus on key components essential to adequate care provision. This in turn provides an opportunity to develop a widely acceptable model framework to direct future developments. There is certainly still room for reform in recognition of specific needs and improvements in treatment and care intervention. This book proposes a simple model which can be used as a guide to increased clinical effectiveness through focused evidence-based reform. Using a time/space framework, it is intended to act as a practical aid to diagnosis of strengths and weaknesses in services that will be used by care providers, trainees and planners both at local and higher levels.

The Mental Health Matrix Reviews

'A watershed in writing about the mental illness services nothing will ever be quite the same again; it is a book certain to be widely read and quoted.' Professor Sir David Goldberg
'The Mental Health Matrix is lucidly written in such simple and spare language as to make its concepts transparent, free of cant and of special pleading. For all these reasons, it should have a profound impact on the provision of mental health services.' Professor Leon Eisenberg, from the Preface
'This book deserves to be a success because it is articulating the voice of an emerging part of psychiatry with public mental health.' British Journal of Psychiatry

Table of Contents

Contributors; Foreword Sir David Goldberg; Preface Leon Eisenberg; Acknowledgements; Part I. The Context: 1. Aims, concepts and structure of the book; 2. Community, mental health services and the public health; 3. The historical context; Part II. The Matrix Model: The Geographical Dimension: 4. The country/regional level; 5. The local level; 6. The patient level; Part III. The Matrix Model: The Temporal Dimension: 7. The input phase; 8. The process phase; 9. The outcome phase; Part IV. Re-Forming Community-Based Mental Health Services: 10. The evidence base for mental health services; 11. The ethical base for mental health services: 'the three ACEs'; 12. Key resources: training and morale of staff; 13. Planning based on evidence and on ethical principles; Part V. International Perspectives on Re-Forming Mental Health Services: 14. Australia Alan Rosen; 15. Canada Alain D. Lesage; 16. Central and Eastern European countries Toma Tomov; 17. Nordic European countries Povl Munk-Jrgensen; 18. United States Richard Warner; Part VI. A Working Synthesis: 19. The matrix model as a pragmatic guide to improve services; References; Glossary; Index.

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NPB9780521621557
9780521621557
0521621550
The Mental Health Matrix: A Manual to Improve Services by Graham Thornicroft (Institute of Psychiatry, London)
New
Hardback
Cambridge University Press
1999-07-15
316
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