From Poorhouses to Homelessness: Policy Analysis and Mental Health Care

by David A. Rochefort

Book Overview

Rochefort updates his classic comprehensive review of mental health policy issues in American society, beginning with early practices that predate the formal mental health system and ending with current debates about parity insurance coverage for mental illnesses, managed care, and Medicaid reform. At the same time, he provides a perspective on mental health policy analysis that draws on diverse work in the policy sciences, looks to both applied and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0865692742
• ISBN13: 9780865692749
• Release Date: December 1997
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"