Needs assessment and community care: clinical practice and policy making

Editor:
BALDWIN Steve
Publisher:
Butterworth-Heinemann
Publication year:
1998
Pagination:
236p.,bibliogs.
Place of publication:
Oxford

Reviews approaches to needs assessment and shows how they allow more precise focusing on requirements for individuals. Includes papers on: where theory of need meets practice in mental health services; the conceptual foundation of assessing health care needs; assessment of need and case management; needs assessment in a rehabilitation service; assessing the needs of people with severe mental health problems; needs assessment in older people suffering from communication difficulties and or cognitive impairment; choice in community care; feminist perspectives on community care in Australia; aspects of informal care in Northern Ireland; psychosocial intervention in nursing; Slovene mental health services; care of people with chronic mental disorders - a European/American perspective; the process of transforming an old fashioned hospital into a modern treatment centre; survivor led research in human services; and assessing learning outcomes in post-qualifying community care training.

Subject terms:
mental health problems, mental health services, needs, needs assessment, older people, post qualifying education, rehabilitation, severe mental health problems, survivors, assessment, community care, dementia, feminist theory, health needs;
Location(s):
Australia, Slovenia
ISBN print:
0 7506 2435 3

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