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book notes A N ASSESSMENT OF THE COMMUNITY M E N T A L H E A L T H MOVEMENT. Walter F. Barton and Charlotte J. Sanborn, eds. Lexington, Mass., Lexington Books, 1975. 195 pages. $18.50.
I N T E G R A T I O N OF H U M A N SERVICES: THE STATE A N D MUNICIPÄL LEVELS. Sheldon P. Gans and Gerald T. Horton. New York, Praeger Publishers, Inc., 1975. 347 pages. $21.50.
Launched in 1963 by P.L. 88-164, the community mental health movement most characteristically represented a change in the locus o f mental health care from institutions to community-based centers. Mental health workers were e q u i p p e d to carry out this transition with a new yet limited technology o f care. Twelve years after its inception, the community mental health m o v e m e n t and the p r o g r a m s it sponsored have been both praised and criticized. In September 1975 an institute was held at D a r t m o u t h Medical College to reflect u p o n the progress and failures of community mental health. This book reflects the work o f that institute. T h e 11 chapters o f the book represent the work o f a n u m b e r o f experts in community mental health and discuss issues such as:
This book evaluates services integration--its nature, its progress, and the federal actions most conducive to this effort. During 1972, two consultant firms examined m o r e than 30 projects to determine the factors that lead to integration of social services. T h e basic approach to the study was the development o f case studies based on reviews of documents and structured interviews with major participants in and observers o f the project's history and development. Part I o f this book contains a description o f the study recommendations, comparative analyses o f the projects according to a n u m b e r of different dimensions, and summaries o f the interesting features o f selected projects. Part II contains a critique o f the Allied Services Act o f 1972 based on the experience o f six stares including case studies. A m o n g the case studies presented are several in mental health-mental retardation including Westside Community Mental Health Center o f San Francisco and the Greater Cleveland Mental Retardation Development Project. Part I l case studies cover the h u m a n services departments o f six states: Florida; Utah; Massachusetts; Georgia; Maine; and Illinois.
• T h e history and philosophy o f c o m munity mental health ° Cases of success and o f failure • Evaluation o f the p r o g r a m • Future directions for community mental health T h e book concludes with a note about the major concerns that must be dealt with in the near future o f community mental health. These are: state planning for mental health; h u m a n service system linkages; unstable funding; and the integration o f mental health care within its own system o f care and with the larger general health care system.
COORDINATING HUMAN SERVICES. Michael Aiken et al. Sah Francisco, Jossey-Bass, 1975. 106 pages. $10.95.
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