Community Care in Practice: Services for the Continuing Care Client (Wiley Series in Clinical Psychology)

by A Lavender (Author)

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  Paperback
  1988

  $8.80

  The purpose of this book is to provide an overview of recent developments in community care for the long term mentally ill. It should have a wide appeal to both practitioners and academics especially in view of the current plans to close large mental hospitals and to replace them with community based services. It includes an historical overview of the community care movement; a substantial section on planning, evaluating and financing community based services; a review of training strategies; and a detailed discussion of the components of the community. The book concludes with a number of case studies in which services are evaluated from a variety of perspectives.