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.
Table of Contents:
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
