Rural Mental Health

Named a 2013 Doody's Core Title!

Addressing the needs of America's most underserved areas for mental health services, Rural Mental Health offers the most up-to-date, research-based information on policies and practice in rural and frontier populations.

Eminent clinicians and researchers examine the complexities of improving mental health in rural practice and offer clear recommendations which can be adapted into current practice and training programs. They bring an incisive lens to factors that contribute to mental illness and prevent access to treatment areas. These include limited resources, reliance on urban models and assumptions, and pervasive misunderstanding of rural realities by policy makers. The text also addresses diversity issues in regard to rural mental health services.

• Focuses on best practices and new models of service delivery in rural populations
• Provides clear recommendations for adapting new models in current practice and training programs
• Takes a micro and macro approach to service delivery models
• Covers contemporary practice applications with specific populations in rural areas

K. Bryant Smalley, PhD, PsyD, MBA, is a licensed clinical psychologist and health equity researcher. He serves as the Associate Vice President for Research, the Wyoming Excellence Chair in Rural Health, and the Co-Executive Director of the Wyoming Rural Health Institute at the University of Wyoming, where he is also a Professor of Public Health.

Jacob C. Warren, PhD, MBA, CRA, is a behavioral epidemiologist specializing in health equity research. He serves as the Co-Executive Director of the Wyoming Rural Health Institute and Professor of Public Health at the University of Wyoming.

Jackson Rainer, PhD, ABPP, is the Department Head of the Department of Psychology and Counseling at Valdosta State University.