Author: Elana Davis ShifleaPublisher:
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Category : Community mental health services
Languages : en
Pages : 182
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A Population Profile of Community Mental Health Center Clients with Mental Illness in Rural Alaska
Author: Elana Davis ShifleaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Community mental health services
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Reaching the Underserved
Author: Lonnie R. SnowdenPublisher: SAGE Publications, Incorporated
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Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Why are some needy populations so difficult to reach by mental health agencies? Original essays examine specific ethnic and other underserved groups such as the aged, rural people, or chronic patients. What is the role of such factors as distance to be travelled, inhospitable presentation, an unsophisticated view of mental health, and inability to pay? What are the factors in mental health services themselves that can be improved? Contributors also review the efforts taken over the last 20 years to reach the underserved and suggest new directions for reform. 'This is a superbly good book on a vital subject and deserves the attention of every person in the field of mental health and especially those in the field of community
Community Mental Health Centers, Perspectives of the Seventies
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Category : Community Mental Health Services
Languages : en
Pages : 142
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DHHS Publication No. (ADM).
Author: Mental Health
Author: Community Mental Health: a Study of Services and Clients
Author: Donald H. MillerPublisher: Lexington, Mass.; Toronto: Lexington Books
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Category : Community mental health services
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Biomedical Index to PHS-supported Research
Author: Mental health and rural America
Author: A Humble Guest
Author: Daniel John HermanPublisher:
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Category : Mental health counselors
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Objective: Rural communities in Alaska face a long list of mental health disparities that are exacerbated by the other challenging factors inherent within the rural context. Rural Alaskan mental health care providers are faced with the tremendous task of providing clinically and culturally competent care to underserved and marginalized populations, with limited personal and professional resources, all while balancing the needs of the community, their own personal boundaries, and the pressure of remaining accountable to the larger system of professional ethics and guidelines. The aim of this study was to explore, identify, and understand from the perspective of rural Alaskan providers what it means to be successful and competent mental health care providers in rural Alaska. The ultimate goal of this study was to develop a deeper understanding of what being successful and competent means from the perspective of providers who have been successful in rural Alaskan practice. Methods: This study utilized an exploratory qualitative methodology grounded in the interpretive/constructivist paradigm. Semi-structured interviews were used to explore the perspectives of 12 mental health providers who have practiced successfully and competently with rural Alaskan patients. Furthermore, a phenomenological-hermeneutic approach was applied in order to work collaboratively with participants to reach a deeper understanding of mental health care success and competence in a rural Alaskan context. Results: Ten contextual themes and 27 subthemes emerged from the interviews that illuminate the experience of success and competence as experienced by rural Alaskan mental health care providers. The implications of this study serve to deepen the current understanding of what it means to practice in rural Alaska with communities and Indigenous people. Furthermore, the findings provide a culture and context specific understanding of success and competence that will help current providers, employers, and communities to better serve rural Alaskan people. The findings contribute to the literature by promoting a salient perspective of practice that is within a context of mental health that is generally disregarded, overlooked, and rarely considered.
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