The fifth edition text of Mental Health and Social Policy takes a multidisciplinary approach to mental health and social policy.

It covers mental health issues and includes important new epidemiological studies, controlled clinical trials, and other investigations that inform the new thrust for evidence-based mental health services. It also covers cutting-edge new information on disparities in mental health care coverage, pharmaceutical companies and the marketing of drugs, PTSD in the wake of the Iraq war and 9/11, the Surgeon General Report on Mental health, the Bush New Freedom commission, and the criminalization of mental illness.

New To This Edition

• Increased coverage of children and children�s services including hot topics such as:
  • Autism
  • The use of psychiatric drugs with children
  • Concerns about use of drugs and suicidality
• Coverage of the Pharmaceutical industry and the enormous growth of new drugs and increased drug costs
• Coverage of the marketing and regulation of drugs
• Racial and ethnic disparities in mental heath care--as well as some possible remedies
• Coverage of the criminalization of mental illness, including mental health courts and jail diversion programs
• Post traumatic stress syndrome
• Describes how Medicaid and additional non-national mental health programs are driving the emerging mental health system
• Expanded coverage of violence and mental illness
• Discusses the upcoming new edition of DSM-V and the controversy about the criteria used for psychiatric diagnosis�has it become too inclusive and not credible enough?