ABSTRACT
Cynthia Moniz and Stephen Gorin’s Behavioral and Mental Health Care Policy and Practice: A Biopyschosocial Perspective is a new mental health policy textbook that offers students a model for understanding policy in a framework that addresses policy practice. Edited to read like a textbook, each chapter is written by experts on an aspect of mental health policy. The book contains two parts: Part I chronicles and analyzes the evolution of mental health policy; Part II analyzes current policy and teaches students to engage in policy practice issues in different settings and with diverse populations.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|102 pages
Where We Are and How We Got Here
part II|159 pages
Policy Practice
chapter 8|18 pages
Analyzing the Problem
Disparities in Behavioral Health Services
1
for People of Color and Latinxs
2
chapter 10|23 pages
Analyzing the Problem
Disparities in Behavioral and Mental Health Care for Children and Youth
chapter 12|24 pages
Analyzing the Problem
Disparities in Behavioral and Mental Health Care for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBTQ) individuals
chapter 13|6 pages
Conclusion
Advocating for Policies That Address Inequities and Disparities in the Behavioral and Mental Health Care System in the U.S.
