1st Edition

Behavioral and Mental Health Care Policy and Practice A Biopsychosocial Perspective

Edited By Cynthia Moniz, Stephen Gorin Copyright 2018
    294 Pages 15 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    294 Pages 15 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    Cynthia Moniz and Stephen Gorin’s Behavioral and Mental Health Care Policy and Practice: A Biopyschosocial Perspective is a new mental health policy textbook that offers students a model for understanding policy in a framework that addresses policy practice. Edited to read like a textbook, each chapter is written by experts on an aspect of mental health policy. The book contains two parts: Part I chronicles and analyzes the evolution of mental health policy; Part II analyzes current policy and teaches students to engage in policy practice issues in different settings and with diverse populations.

    PART I. Where We Are and How We Got Here

    Chapter 1. Mental Health under the Affordable Care Act

    Chapter 2. The Early Years: From the Mental Hygiene Movement to

    NIMH

    Chapter 3. Medicare, Medicaid and Community Mental Health

    Chapter 4. The Cost of Health Care and Strategies for

    Containment

    Chapter 5. Structure and Funding of Behavioral and Mental Health Care

    System

    PART II. Policy Practice: Advancing Access to Behavioral and Mental

    Health Care

    Chapter 6. Social Workers and Policy Practice: Affecting Policy and

    Achieving Policy Action

    Chapter 7. Analyzing the Problem: Access

    Chapter 8. Analyzing the Problem: Disparities in Behavioral and Mental

    Health for People of Color and Latinos

    Chapter 9. Analyzing the Problem: Gender Disparities in Behavioral and

    Mental Health

    Chapter 10. Analyzing the Problem: Disparities in Behavioral and Mental Health for Children and Youth

    Chapter 11. Analyzing the Problem: Disparities in Behavioral and Mental Health for Older Adults

    Chapter 12. Analyzing the Problem: Disparities in Behavioral and Mental Health for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered (LGBT)

    Chapter 13. Advocating for Policies that Expand Coverage, Control Costs, and

    Build a Strong Community-Based Behavioral and Mental Health

    System

    Biography

    Cynthia D. Moniz is Professor Emeritus of Social Work and Department Chair at Plymouth State University in New Hampshire.

    Stephen H. Gorin is Professor Emeritus of Social Work at Plymouth State University in New Hampshire.