Managing Mental Health Services (Health Services Management) - Softcover

"...thorough...detailed...interesting." - Health Service Journal "This book will provide students of medical sociology, health policy and health services management with a rangeof information which is not often available in core texts but which is important for understanding the workings of contemporary health caredelivery." - Sociology of Health & Illness "The author has written a book which is very readable, well written, clearly organized, comprehensive, balanced in its treatment of industrial and governmental perspectives, and stuffed with interesting titbits about the pharmaceutical industry garnered from around the industrialized world." - International Journal for Quality in Health Care

* What are the key tasks that a mental health manager needs to fulfil?
* What are the six key steps needed to develop manageable mental health services?
* How can managers not just survive but creatively improve mental health services?

This is a practical, no-nonsense book designed to help managers of mental health services cope, survive and constructively fulfil their role. It has been written to help managers to function in an increasingly complex mental health service arena. In clear, jargon-free language it aims to demystify key managerial terms, to provide an understandable summary of the relevant policy and legal framework, and to provide signposts to assist managers in making their way through the maze of service planning and service development options. Managing Mental Health Services will be a leading practical handbook in its field, a point of reference for hands-on managers, and a source of stimulating advice, tips and guidance in mental health service management.