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Mental Health Services and Community Care - by Ian Cummins (Hardcover)

Mental Health Services and Community Care - by  Ian Cummins (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>This inter-disciplinary study considers the past, present and future of mental health services and community care. From the origins of provision as we know it in the 1960s, it sets out the political, economic and bureaucratic factors behind recent crises and considers what the founding principles of community care tell us about the way forward.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>This rigorous study of contemporary mental health services and community care is important reading for students, teachers and researchers in the field of social work and mental health. Cummins analyses the political, economic and bureaucratic factors behind changes and crises in mental health services and returns to the progressive principles of the early development of community care to identify the most effective and sustainable pathways forward. </p><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Ian Cummins is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Health and Society at the University of Salford.

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