Mental Health Services and Community Care: A Critical History

by Ian Cummins

This critical interdisciplinary study charts the modern history of mental health services, reflects upon the evolution of care in communities, and considers the most effective policies and practices for the future.

Starting with the development of community care in the 1960s, Cummins explores the political, economic, and bureaucratic factors behind the changes and crises in mental health social care, returning to those roots to identify...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1447350596
• ISBN13: 9781447350590
• Release Date: May 2020
• Publisher: Policy Press
• Length: 182 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 9.3"