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This volume reviews the emerging patterns of mental health care delivery in different western countries, outlining the innovations of recent years and analyzing some of the impediments to their full implementation. The provision of effective mental health care services to all sections of the population at a reasonable cost is one of the most pressing problems facing clinicians, planners and administrators. This text is composed of three sections. Part I describes numerous innovations in the community care of psychiatric patients, while Part II examines the main impediments to the systematic implementation. Part III integrates the book, provides an overview, and details some specific issues in the implementation of innovation in mental health care delivery.

"This important and timely volume has a scope and depth rarely matched by previous publications. Its essays are written by some of the most internationally distinguished researchers, practitioners, or policy planners in the field....The book will be especially useful for giving students a sense of current issues in the sociology of health as well providing them with an introduction to current research by medical sociologists." Contemporary Sociology

"This multidisciplinary examination of these three groups from an international perspective is revealing and provocative. It provides insights, both old and new, about system design and impediments to implementation." Emile Bendit, Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

"I recommend this book to anyone who is interested in mental health policy and mental health services. The relative emphasis on public policy and research issues in other countries is a decided plus....For edited work, this is an exceptional volume. I learned a good deal from it. So might you." Charles A. Kiesler, Contemporary Psychology