...Laurence R. Tancredi Copyright © 1980 by the Dept. of Health Administration, Duke University 1980 Commentary The Rights of Mental Patients: Weighing the Interests Laurence R. Tancredi, New York University The mental health law movement, which has brought about many criti...

...Jeffrey Rubin A confusing array of options to reform mental health care is now under consideration by policymakers. To clarify the implications of these options, five categories of actions are distinguished. These reforms are: federal program change, litigation, state commitment statute reform...

...Richard G. Frank; W. P. Welch The predominant approach to contracting state mental hospital systems has been to close individual hospitals. Such a policy creates conflict between state government and the affected workers and communities. Closing of hospitals has been motivated by an implicit...

...Thomas G. McGuire; John T. Montgomery Eleven states mandate coverage of inpatient and outpatient mental health care in private health insurance. Health insurers have objected to these laws on the grounds that they interfere with consumer choice of health insurance benefits and are too costly...

...Corinne A. Houpt David B. Wexler, Mental Health Law: Major Issues (New York: Plenum Press, 1981), 265 pp., $25 Copyright © 1982 by the Department of Health Administration, Duke University Press 1982 BmkReviews 755 us to avoid at least...

...David A. Rochefort In recent decades the community mental health movement has achieved a dramatic reduction in the census of state and county mental hospitals in the United States, and hundreds of federally-funded community mental health centers have been established nationwide. At the same time...

...John H. Noble, Jr.; Joseph J. Bevilacqua Stanley S. Herr, Stephen Arons, and E. Wallace Wallace, Jr. Legal Rights and Mental-Health Care (Lexington, Mass.: Lexington Books, 1983). 180 pp. $22.95 Copyright © 1984 by the Dept. of Health Administration, Duke University 1984...

...Phil Brown The right to refuse treatment is the most controversial of the rights of mental patients, and usually polarizes the movement for mental health reform between providers of care and external activist reformers. A broad alliance supported earlier struggles for recognition of patients...

...Barbara Brenzel Gerald N. Grob, Mental Illness and American Society, 1875–1940 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1983), 428 pp., $25.00 Copyright © 1985 by the Dept. of Health Administration, Duke University 1985 194 Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law and other...

...Richard G. Frank David Upton, Mental Health Care and National Health Insurance (New York: Plenum Press, 1983), 312 pp. Copyright © 1985 by the Dept. of Health Administration, Duke University 1985 Book Reviews 195 stitutions tended...

...Glenn L. Pierce; Mary L. Durham; William H. Fisher This paper examines the impact of broadened Washington state civil commitment standards on utilization of the state's mental hospitals. Included in the analysis is an assessment of the impact of a public event (a well-publicized murder case) which...

...David Mechanic Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 David Mechanic Rutgers University The initial Clinton health care reform proposal for the mental health/ substance abuse (MHISA...

...Edward Yelin David A. Rochefort. From Poorhouses to Homelessness: Policy Analysis and Mental Health Care . Westport, CT: Auburn House, 1993. 320 pp. $59.95 cloth, $22.95 paper. Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 Reviews 917...

... attention is being focused on the individual characteristics of participants themselves,particularly specific diagnoses that might reduce employability. This article focuses on substance abuse and mental health problems among single mothers and examines their relationship to welfare receipt. We analyze data...

...John Kastan Because of increased competition and financial pressure, more and more contemporary health care organizations are forming (or attempting to form)collaborative ventures. In the early 1980s, the New York City Board of Education and the New York City Department of Mental Health planned...

...Françoise Boudreau The notion of partnership is increasingly adopted as a sine qua non for the successful resolution of strategic problems in the field of human services. In this paper, I examine Québec's recent mental health policy and its operational definition of the concept. I then suggest...

... of the Community Mental Health Centers Program. Washington Report The President's Commission on Mental Health Franklin D. Chu* Joseph L. Falkson The President's Commission on Mental Health was established on February 17, 1977, and charged "to review the mental health...

...Sherry Glied; Richard G. Frank Abstract Mental illnesses provide a difficult set of challenges to American health and social institutions. Those challenges have been a continuous concern of David Mechanic's over the course of his career. In this article we trace the development of modern economic...

...Mark Olfson Abstract Primary care physicians have assumed an increasingly important role in US outpatient mental health care. They are providing an increasing volume of outpatient mental health services, prescribing a growing number and variety of psychotropic medications, and treating patients...

...Sandra J. Tanenbaum Abstract Until 2008 Ohio Advocates for Mental Health was a statewide mental health advocacy organization run by mental health consumers and supportive of consumer-run organizations around the state. The author's tenure on the board entailed repeated engagement with questions...