Community Mental Health Initiatives

Mental health initiatives in India (1947-2010).

© The National Medical Journal of India 2011 ‘A network of decentralized mental health services for ameliorating the more common categories of disorders is envisaged. The programme outline for such a disease would involve the diagnosis of common disorders, and the prescription of common therapeutic drugs, by general duty medical staff. In regard to mental health institutions for indoor treatmen...

Community mental health services.

A. Credentialing and re-credentialing shall be conducted and documented for at least the following health care professionals employed or individually contracted by GCCMH through its Human Resources Department: 1. Physicians (M.D.s or D.O.s), including board certification or board eligibility, if applicable 2. Physician's Assistants Certified 3. Psychologists (Licensed, Limited License, or Tempo...

Mental Health and the Community

these are two books from Behavioral Publications in America, which is an off-shoot of the Community Mental Health Journal. The first is a series of original contributions by different authors, some of whom are already well-known. The aim of the collection is to 'bridge the gap between theory and program implementation', by describing how proposals have been carried out in different parts of the...

Jamaica: Community Mental Health Services

Mental health services in Jamaica are in transition. Jamaica’s Ministry of Health is trying to develop a better and more comprehensive community mental health system by building on the success of pioneer community services while scaling down Bellevue, the country’s biggest and best known psychiatric hospital. Mental health officers (MHOs) are at the heart of the transformation; increasing the n...

Mental health and social policy: initiatives for the 1980s.