The author recounts his life and how it led to a career as an activist community psychology practitioner with a focus on issues of social justice. He tells of his upbringing, family and education as the background to a series of positions in various systems. The story shows an evolution from working with individuals to working with whole communities; and from working on issues of remediation an...

The New Haven Mental Health Outreach for MotherS (MOMS) Partnership is a community-academic partnership that works to develop public health approaches to ensure that pregnant and parenting women living in the City of New Haven achieve the highest possible level of mental health. The MOMS Partnership developed a training model for community health workers specializing in maternal mental health. ...

This paper surveys the literature on the impacts of the Basel Capital Accords on banking market profitability, competitiveness, structure and risk-taking. Special emphasis is applied to the evolution of mortgage markets throughout the world over almost two decades of international bank regulatory policies. This paper has received generous financial support from the Canada Housing and Mortgage C...

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...

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...

Washtenaw County Community Mental Health (CMH) is the primary mental health services provider for more than 5,000 children and adults living with serious mental illness, developmental disabilities, or emotional disturbances in Washtenaw County, Michigan. To improve care coordination with healthcare and social services providers in the area, CMH and other mental health agencies and community par...

OBJECTIVE Self-help agencies are funded as adjuncts of, referral sources for, or alternatives to community mental health agencies. Little is known about how these two types of organization in geographic proximity interact, whom they attract as prospective clients, and what their clients bring to the service situation. The authors compared the characteristics and past service use of new enrollee...