In Recovery : The Making of Mental Health Policy
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N Jacobson opens her book by describing the creation of the Commission on Mental Health. “With his signature on an executive order . . . (he) established the . . . Commission on Mental Health, a body to be made up of ‘representatives from government, the mental health professions, the public and private sector and individuals who have an interest in the future direction of mental health care.’ . . . Citing a need to ‘closely examine the present mental health care delivery system and how said system should evolve into the twenty-first century,’ . . . the Commission was to undertake a review of the . . . treatment and support services, its organizational arrangements, and its financing mechanisms, and, within a year, make recommendations that would restructure them into a coordinated system with an emphasis on prevention, stigma reduction, consumer outcomes, treatment effectiveness, efficiency, and accountability.” Dr. Jacobsen then adds the focus of the commission. “The philosophical cornerstone of the commission’s recommendations was the adoption of ‘the concept of recovery, that is, the successful integration of a mental disorder into a consumer’s life, as the key tenet of the redesigned mental health system.’ ” My initial reaction in reading the opening chapter of In Recovery was a sense of deflation. For the past year, I have been working with the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s Center for Mental Health Services to transform the nation’s mental health systems in keeping with the goals laid out in the 2003 final report of the President’s New Freedom Commission on Mental Health Jeffrey L. Geller, M.D., M.P.H., Editor
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تاریخ انتشار 2006