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Mental Health Planning for Social Action
The author addresses himself to "all who work and plan for Cental health". He has been outstandingly successful in covering this wide field, both from the angles of mental defect and illness and also, very comprehensively, from that of prevention and the build-lr*g up of positive mental health. Readers in this country will be struck by the paucity of services for the mentally deficient and by t...
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MENTAL HEALTH PLANNING FOR SOCIAL ACTION. By George S. Stevenson. New York, The Blakiston Division, McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1956. 358 pp. $6.50. Few, if any, have done as much to advance the cause of mental health as the author of this book for which so many have waited with keen anticipation. Dr. Stevenson, with rare insight and judgment, has presented the challenge that "there is more...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Public Health and the Nations Health
سال: 1956
ISSN: 0002-9572
DOI: 10.2105/ajph.46.11.1466-b