Oxford Textbook of Community Mental Health

Community mental health has evolved as a field of practice and as a research discipline during the last 50 years. Now newer concepts, such as shared decision-making, the recovery approach, evidence-based practice, implementation science, telemedicine, and mobile device technology, are adding layers of texture to this domain. These developments require an ever more sophisticated understanding of the very latest evidence and experience in community mental health care to respond to the values, goals, needs and preferences of people with lived experience of mental health conditions. This second edition of the Oxford Textbook of Community Mental Health addresses recent changes and achievements, current controversies, and future challenges while emphasizing areas of convergence, where social values, health, medical sciences, and policy formation converge and meet. This edition also features a new section on global mental health, to emphasise what is known about the mental health gap in low- and middle-income countries, and the evidence of how to respond to these huge global challenges. Like community mental health care itself, the authors are multidisciplinary, international, and bring both clinical and scientific perspectives to this volume. This textbook will be an invaluable and authoritative source of reference for all mental health specialists; for people with mental health conditions, for staff in non-governmental and governmental organisations, and indeed for all who are dedicated to creating better mental health services and systems.

1 - Introduction to community mental health
2 - Historical changes in mental health practice
3 - Mental health policy in modern America
4 - Recovery as an integrative paradigm in mental health
5 - The application of epidemiology to mental disorders
6 - Treated and untreated prevalence of mental disorder
7 - Expertise from experience: mental health recovery and wellness
8 - Measuring the needs of people with mental illness
9 - Mental health, ethnicity and cultural diversity: evidence and challenges
10 - Responding to migration and upheaval
11 - Early intervention for mental health and substance use disorders
12 - Organising the range of community mental health services
13 - Crisis and emergency services
14 - Early intervention for people with psychotic disorders
15 - Case management and assertive community treatment
16 - Medication treatment
17 - Psychiatric outpatient clinics
18 - Day hospital and partial hospitalisation programmes
19 - In-patient treatment
20 - Residential care
21 - Individual placement and support: the evidence-based practice of supported employment
22 - Programmes to support family members and caregivers
23 - Managing co-occurring physical disorders in mental health care
24 - Illness self-management programmes
25 - Co-occurring substance use disorders
26 - Behavioural health technologies including telehealth
27 - Forensic community mental health services
28 - Ethical framework for community mental health
29 - International human rights and community mental health
30 - Treatment pressures, coercion and compulsion
31 - Public knowledge and awareness about mental illnesses
32 - Reducing stigma and discriminatory behaviour
33 - Shaping national mental health policies
34 - Funding mental health services
35 - Research designs and evaluating treatment interventions
36 - Qualitative research methods in mental health
37 - Developing evidence-based mental health practices
38 - Implementing guidelines
39 - Global burden of disease and mental disorders
40 - Planning mental health care at the national level
41 - Contributions of religious, alternative and complementary practitioners
42 - Planning and implementing community services for a district
43 - Mental health aspects of pandemics
44 - ‘Mental health’ in low- and middle-income countries
45 - Overcoming impediments to community mental health in low and middle income countries
46 - Summing up: community mental health in the future

Graham Thornicroft is Professor of Community Psychiatry at King's College London. He is also a Consultant Psychiatrist at the South London & Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, working in a community mental health team with people in a first episode of psychosis. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, a National Institute of Health Research Senior Investigator Emeritus, and Honorary Fellow of King's College London and the Royal College of Psychiatrists. Graham has made significant contributions to the fields of community mental health, global mental health, and reducing stigma and discrimination. Bob Drake is Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons and a Vice President at the Westat Corporation. He is an active clinician and has studied psychiatric rehabilitation for over 50 years. Along with Deborah Becker, he developed the Individual Placement and Support (IPS) model of supported employment, the IPS Employment Center, and the International IPS Learning Community. He has published more than 700 articles and books on psychiatric rehabilitation. Oye Gureje is Professor and Director, WHO Collaborating Centre for Research and Training in Mental Health, Neuroscience and Substance Abuse, University of Ibadan, Nigeria. He is Fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Science, Fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Medicine and a laureate of the Nigerian National Order of Merit. He is known internationally for his work on psychiatric epidemiology, ageing, psychiatric nosology and global mental health. Kim T. Mueser, Ph.D. was the Executive Director of the Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation at Boston University from 2011 to 2016, where he still works. Dr. Mueser has served on the editorial boards of numerous peer reviewed journals and was formerly the co-editor of Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal and U.S. editor of the Journal of Mental Health. He is a recipient of the Michael S. Neale Award from Division 18 (Psychologists in Public Service) of the American Psychological Association and the Armin Leob Research Award from United States Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association. Hs research focuses psychosocial treatments for people with serious mental illnesses. Dr George Szmukler is Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry and Society, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London. He has been Dean of the Institute of Psychiatry, consultant psychiatrist, South London and Maudsley NHS Trust, and a Visiting Professor in the Department of Sociology at the London School of Economics. His research interests have included: eating disorders, health services research, service users and carers as partners in conducting research, ethical and legal aspects of psychiatry - especially reform of mental health legislation - and research on methods aimed at reducing coercion in mental health care.