Best Practices in Community Mental Health: A Pocket Guide is a quick
reference guide to best practices that are essential for providing
comprehensive, holistic care. Intended for use across a wide range of
disciplines within mental health social work, counseling, psychiatric
nursing and rehabilitation, public psychiatry the pocket guide offers a
well-rounded foundation of services that can be adapted to each practice
setting. This comprehensive but compact overview lends itself well to
in-service trainings and makes an ideal companion for students in mental
health internships and practicums. The accessible, actionable format
spares busy professionals the need to hunt through long textbooks and
articles for the information they need right away. This pocket guide
is the first book of its kind to compile such a diverse set of
practices, providing essential theory and background for each one, along
with a review of available evidence, steps for implementation, and
strategies for assessment and evaluation. Each chapter opens with a case
study that provides an insider s perspective and closes with a glossary
and links to online resources.