Mental health in America: a reference handbook

Background and History. America through the nineteenth century

The twentieth century

Deinstitutionalization

Institutional reform and community mental health

Special diagnostic issues

The Twenty-First Century: Problems, Controversies, and Solutions. Defining mental illness

Co-occurring disorders (dual disorders), suicide

Who are the mentally ill?

Treatment

Research and prevention

Consumer choice and involuntary treatment

Funding

Parity

Managed care

Integration and linking with primary care

Mental health in the workplace

When and why the system fails

Stigmatization

Housing and homelessness

Mental illness and criminal justice

Grading the states, 2006

An ideal system

Worldwide Perspective. The global burden of mental disorders

Mental health policy and practice

Financing and human resources

Chronology.

Biographies. Karl Abraham

Nathan W. Ackerman

Alfred Adler

Franz Gabriel Alexander

Gregory Bateson

Clifford W. Beers

Eric Berne

Eugene B. Brody

George W. Bush

Rosalyn Carter

Jean Martin Charcot

Bill Clinton

Albert Deutsch

Albert Ellis

Erik Homburger Erikson

Anna Freud

Sigmund Freud

Erich Fromm

William Glasser

Erving Goffman

Mike Gorman

Carl Gustav Jung

John F. Kennedy

R.D. Laing

Abraham Harold Maslow

David Mechanic

Fritz Perls

Otto Rank

Ronald Reagan

B.F. Skinner

Thomas Szasz

E. Fuller Torrey.

Facts and Statistics. Federal agencies and mental health data collections

Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS)

State mental health statistics

Department of Health and Human Services, Healthy People 2010

National Center for Health Statistics, Mental Health Disorders Statistics

Morbidity

Ambulatory care

Hospital inpatient care

Nursing home care

Mortality

National Institute of Mental Health

The impact of mental illness on society

World Health Organization, Global Burden of Disease

Mental disorders in America

Depressive disorders

Suicide

Schizophrenia

Anxiety disorders

Eating disorders

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)

Department of Health and Human Services, substance abuse and mental health services

Administration

Nonprofit organizations and mental health statistics

General public

Minorities

Children and adolescents

Older adults.

Documents, Reports, and Nongovernmental Organizations

Achieving the Promise: Transforming Mental Health Care in America 2003

Epidemiological Studies: Epidemiological Catchment Area (ECA) Study 1980-1985, National Co-Morbidity Study 1990-1992, and NCS-Replication Released 2005

Free to Choose: Transforming Behavioral Health Care to Self-Direction: Report of the 2004 Consumer Direction Initiative Summit

Global Burden of Disease

Mental Health: A Report of the Surgeon General, executive summary

National Alliance for the Mentally Ill

National Mental Health Association

National Strategy for Suicide Prevention: Goals and Objectives for Action

Aims of the National Strategy

A plan for suicide prevention: goals, objectives, and activities

Rosenhan Study

World Federation for Mental Health

Goals

World Health Report 2001

Mental Health: New Understanding, New Hope

Legislation and Court Cases. Protection

Commitment

Commitment and Criminal Justice

Right to Treatment

Right to Refuse Treatment and Informed Consent

Advocacy

Legislation

The Social Security Act of 1935 and Its Amendments

The Community Mental Health Centers (CMHC) Act of 1963

Head Start 1964

The Rehabilitation Act of 1973

Individuals with Disabilities Education Act of 1975

The Omnibus Reconciliation Act of 1981

The McKinney Act of 1987

The Fair Housing Amendments of 1988

The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990

The Mental Health Parity Act of 1996

Organizations. Professional societies and nonprofit issue and advocacy associations

Government agencies

International organizations

Health research and healthcare policy organization web sites.