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Mental Health in Rural America
A Field Guide
Ellen Greene Stewart
- 226 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
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Mental Health in Rural America
A Field Guide
Ellen Greene Stewart
About This Book
This book provides a comprehensive overview of mental health in rural America, with the goal of fostering urgently needed research and honest conversations about providing accessible, culturally competent mental health care to rural populations. Grounding the work is an explanation of the history and structure of rural mental health care, the culture of rural living among diverse groups, and the crucial "A's" and "S": accountability, accessibility, acceptability, affordability, and stigma. The book then examines poverty, disaster mental health, ethics in rural mental health, and school counseling. It ends with practical information and treatments for two of the most common problems, suicide and substance abuse, and a brief exploration of collaborative possibilities in rural mental health care.
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- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- About the Author
- Acknowledgments
- Preface: Rural America—Bucolic and Beleaguered
- Introduction: Rural Matters—Life in a Hamlet
- 1 What Defines Rural and Frontier, and Why Are They Important?
- 2 Rural Mental Health Policy and Parity
- 3 Obstacles to Treatment—The Four “A’s” and an “S”: Accessibility, Availability, Acceptability, Affordability, and Stigma
- 4 The Structure of Rural Mental Health Care: State, County, Town, Village
- 5 Understanding the Culture of Rural Living
- 6 Agricultural Roots of Rurality
- 7 Disaster Mental Health
- 8 Poverty
- 9 Types of Mental Health Practitioners and Their Scopes of Practice
- 10 Treatment Philosophies and Models
- 11 Issues in Rural Practice
- 12 The Three “R’s” of Schools in Rural Areas: Reassurance, Responsibility, and Resolution
- 13 Substance Abuse in Rural Areas
- 14 Suicide in Rural Areas
- 15 A Day in the Life of a Rural Mental Health Practitioner
- 16 The Rural Economy in Transition
- 17 Technological Innovations in Rural Mental Health Services
- 18 Looking Forward: Collaborative Possibilities
- Mental Health Organizations
- Recommended Reading
- Index