The Rise of Social Work in Public Mental Health through Aftercare of People with Serious Mental Illness

Social Work ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 43 (6) ◽  
pp. 567-757 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. S. Vourlekis ◽  
G. Edinburg ◽  
R. Knee
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Serious Mental Illness ◽  
Public Mental Health

No health without mental health—mens sana in corpore sano

2019 ◽  
pp. 177-200
Author(s):  
John Ashton
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
Serious Mental Illness ◽  
Public Mental Health ◽  
Public Health Approach ◽  
Planned Parenthood ◽  
Psychiatric Expertise ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
The Media

This chapter approaches the important subject of mental health and wellbeing through the lens of public health. Drawing on his own experience as a physician who specializes in psychiatry before moving into public health the author describes the struggle to move upstream from a sole focus on treating serious mental illness to the recent developments in public mental health and offers a framework for action. This draws on a historical overview of the differing emphases that have played in over the past two hundred years. This framework focuses on public health aspects as well as prevention and mitigation of harm from serious mental illness, and addresses the need for whole population approaches to mental health and mental health promotion. Examples of interventions that draw on public health interventions are given. These include the importance of planned parenthood and sexual health, the appropriate use of psychiatric expertise in support of population and community mental health, the centrality of concepts such as self-esteem, and the necessity to take a public health approach to the new challenge of dementia. Behavioural contagion, the role of the media, and the prevention of suicide are among the topics covered.

Comment: ‘Devining’ The Role of the Consultant Psychiatrist in a Public Mental Health Service

1998 ◽  
Vol 32 (5) ◽  
pp. 612-615 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan Rosen
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
Mental Health Service ◽  
Public Mental Health ◽  
Consultant Psychiatrist ◽  
Persistent Mental Illness ◽  
Public Mental Health Service ◽  
Key Players ◽  
Recovery Program

We admitted to ourselves, …and to our colleagues that we cannot treat people with severe and persistent mental illness as independent practitioners, and asked to be key players on the multidisciplinary team (Extract from A 12-Step Recovery Program for Psychiatrists [1]).

scholarly journals Access to public mental health services among older adults with severe mental illness

2009 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 313-318 ◽  
Author(s):  
Todd P. Gilmer ◽  
Victoria D. Ojeda ◽  
Dahlia Fuentes ◽  
Viviana Criado ◽  
Piedad Garcia
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Older Adults ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
Mental Health Services ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Severe Mental Illness ◽  
Public Mental Health ◽  
Public Mental Health Services

scholarly journals Veterans Affairs Health System and Mental Health Treatment Retention among Patients with Serious Mental Illness: Evaluating Accessibility and Availability Barriers

2007 ◽  
Vol 42 (3p1) ◽  
pp. 1042-1060 ◽  
Author(s):  
John F. McCarthy ◽  
Frederic C. Blow ◽  
Marcia Valenstein ◽  
Ellen P. Fischer ◽  
Richard R. Owen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
Health System ◽  
Serious Mental Illness ◽  
Mental Health Treatment ◽  
Veterans Affairs ◽  
Treatment Retention ◽  
Health Treatment
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