40 years of academic public psychiatry (J. Wiley, 2007)
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Includes bibliographical references and index
The Connecticut Mental Health Center as a public psychiatry initiative / Selby C. Jacobs and Ezra E.H. Griffith -- Severe and persistent mental illness / Bruce Wexler ... [et al.] -- Connecticut Mental Health Center clinical, research, and training programs in the addictions / Richard Schottenfeld ... [et al.] -- The law and psychiatry division at the Connecticut Mental Health Center / Howard V. Zonana and Madelon V. Baranoski -- The neuroscience research program at the Connecticut Mental Health Center / George R. Heninger ... [et al.] -- Psychiatric epidemiology, services research, prevention, and public health / Selby C. Jacobs ... [et al.] -- Ethnicity, mental health care disparities, and culturally competent care at the Connecticut Mental Health Center / Howard C. Blue ... [et al.] -- A public-academic partnership at the Connecticut Mental Health Center / Wayne F. Dailey ... [et al.] -- Public psychiatry training and education at the Connecticut Mental Health Center / Jeanne Steiner ... [et al.] -- The future of academic public psychiatry / Selby C. Jacobs and Ezra E.H. Griffith -- Academic-public partnership from a British perspective / Ajoy Thachil and Dinesh Bhugra
This book describes an outstanding training programme in public psychiatry developed by the Connecticut Mental Health Center. It is a worthwhile and valuable contribution to the field that has no current equivalent in the market. The book suggests a plan for the future of public sector psychiatry and serves as a model to centers throughout North America and further afield. It describes the impact of the Connecticut Mental Health Center on psychiatric service models in the public sector