Community Mental Health Care

Mental health care in the community.

Ethical dilemmas in community mental health care.

Ethical dilemmas in community mental health care is the focus of this article. The dilemmas are derived from a discussion of the results of a qualitative research project that took place in five countries of the European Union. The different stakeholders are confronted with the following dilemmas: community care versus hospital care (clients); a life with care versus a life without care (inform...

Community-oriented collaboration for mental health care and mental health promotion

partnership between schools and clusters of general practices, how music and the arts can contribute to healing and building communities. We will highlight the social and occupational impacts on mental health at all stages of life – parents, schools, workplace, retirement, the third age, end of life. We will argue that primary care does not have to do all of this, but that it is key to orchestr...

Community mental health nurses, primary care and the National Service Framework for Mental Health.

The National Service Framework for Mental Health focuses on the mental health needs of adults up to the age of 65. Susan Plummer and Richard Gray discuss standard two by focusing on depression.

Enhancing Pediatric Mental Health Care: Strategies for Preparing a Community

Pediatricians and other primary care clinicians* caring for children traditionally have focused their attention on meeting the health care needs of individual children they see in their offices and clinics. However, effective care of the growing number of children and familieswho are experiencing chronic medical and mental disorders will also require a “population” healthperspective.Manypolicy ...