Redressing the Emperor

Improving Our Children's Public Mental Health System

John Lyons

• Publisher: Praeger
• Year: 2004
• ISBN:
  9780313057724
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: History & Theory in Psychology
• Index: Psychology

Lyons provides a fresh and thought-provoking understanding of the children's public mental health system, as well as the need to foster its evolution and improvement. He presents the history of child mental health systems, including the U.S. system's roots and the early 19th-century case of the Wild Boy of Aveyron, which demonstrated the potentially therapeutic effects of environment. He shows us why modern leaders and presidents have issued calls for improvements to the U.S. child mental health system, and what barriers have slowed or even halted this evolution. Such barriers, Lyons explains, can be removed with community development and better clinical outcomes management. In addition to providing information for parents, family members, and advocates for improving the lives of children needing mental health care, this work will also interest clinicians, policy makers and students in social work, clinical psychiatry, public health and public policy.

Table of contents

• Contents
• Foreword
• Acknowledgments
• CHAPTER 1 The History of Children‘s Public Mental Health Services
• CHAPTER 2 Problems with the Current System: Tensions and Syndromes
• CHAPTER 3 Developing the Vision: Finding the Balance
• CHAPTER 4 Building Healthy Communities
• CHAPTER 5 The Measurement and Management of Outcomes in a Total Clinical Outcomes Management Approach
• CHAPTER 6 The Role of Existing Programs and Services in an Evolving System
• CHAPTER 7 Creating Solutions across the System of Care
• Appendix: Child and Adolescent Needs and Strengths
• Bibliography
• Index
• About the Series Editor and Advisory Board