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Mental Health in America: A Reference Handbook: Contemporary World Issues

Autor Donna R. Kemp
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 28 feb 2007 – vârsta până la 17 ani
This extensive overview charts the fluctuating course of mental health policy in the United States from colonial times to today.Mental Health in America: A Reference Handbook examines the evolution of mental health policy in America from the almshouses of colonial times and the dawn of psychoanalysis in the early 1900s to the community mental health revolution in the 1960s and the insurance problems plaguing the field today.Addressing such conditions as Alzheimer's disease, schizophrenia, anxiety, dementia, bipolar disorder, and depression, this work explores the changing definitions and explanations of mental illness and provides detailed analyses of treatments and their effects, including electroshock therapy, lobotomy, and psychotropic drugs. Readers will meet such key players as Horace Mann, who called for the insane to be made wards of the state, and assemblywoman Helen Thomson, an involuntary-treatment advocate referred to by her opponents as "Nurse Ratchett."
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781851097890
ISBN-10: 1851097899
Pagini: 322
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 29 mm
Greutate: 0.62 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția ABC-CLIO
Seria Contemporary World Issues

Locul publicării:New York, United States

Caracteristici

A detailed chronology of key events, reform movements, legislation, such as the National Mental Health Act of 1946, and landmark research findings

Notă biografică

Donna R. Kemp is professor of public administration and MPA Coordinator of the Department of Political Science at California State University, Chico, CA. Her published works include Biomedical Policy and Mental Health and Mental Health in the Workplace: An Employer's and Manager's Guide.

Recenzii

highly recommended for all medical and sociology-related collections.
Recommended. Lower-level undergraduates through faculty/researchers; general readers.
This work is recommended for public, high school, and undergraduate collections.