Overview
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Abraham M. Jeger
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New York Institute of Technology at Old Westbury, Old Westbury, USA
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Robert S. Slotnick
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New York Institute of Technology at Old Westbury, Old Westbury, USA
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Table of contents (35 chapters)
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Front Matter
Pages i-xxix
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Behavioral-Ecology
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- Abraham M. Jeger, Robert S. Slotnick
Pages 1-5
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- Abraham M. Jeger, Robert S. Slotnick
Pages 7-26
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- Abraham M. Jeger, Robert S. Slotnick
Pages 27-42
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- Abraham M. Jeger, Robert S. Slotnick
Pages 43-86
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Community Alternatives to Institutionalization
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- Abraham M. Jeger, Robert S. Slotnick
Pages 87-93
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- Robert Paul Liberman, Timothy G. Kuehnel, Julie M. Kuehnel, Thad Eckman, Jeffrey Rosenstein
Pages 95-112
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- Louis G. Tornatzky, Esther O. Fergus
Pages 113-126
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- Eileen D. Edmunson, Jeffrey R. Bedell, Robert P. Archer, Richard E. Gordon
Pages 127-139
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Consultation as Indirect Service
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Front Matter
Pages 141-141
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- Abraham M. Jeger, Robert S. Slotnick
Pages 141-146
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- Sandra Twardosz, Todd Risley
Pages 147-159
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- Kenneth R. Suckerman, Paulette Hines, Steven B. Gordon
Pages 161-170
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- N. Dickon Reppucci, J. Terry Saunders
Pages 171-185
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Prevention as Community Enhancement
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Front Matter
Pages 197-197
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- Abraham M. Jeger, Robert S. Slotnick
Pages 197-202
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- Maurice J. Elias, Jack M. Chinsky, George J. Allen, Stephen W. Larcen
Pages 203-216
About this book
This volume is addressed to professionals and students in community mental health-including researchers, clinicians, administrators, educa tors, and students in relevant specialities within the fields of psychology, psychiatry, social work, public health, and nursing. The intent of this book is to serve as a practical resource for professionals and also as a di dactic text for students. In addition,·the volume seeks to make a theoret ical contribution to the field by presenting, for the first time in book form, a behavioral-ecological perspective in community mental health. We present behavioral-ecology as an emerging perspective that is concerned with the interdependence of people, behavior, and their sociophysical environments. Behavioral-ecology attributes mental health problems to transactions between persons and their settings, rather than to causes rooted exclusively within individuals or environments. In this vol ume we advance the notion of behavioral-ecology as an integration of two broad perspectives--behauioral approaches as derived from the indi vidual psychology of learning, and ecological approaches as encompassing the study of communities, environments, and social systems. Through the programs brought together in this book we are arguing for a merging of these two areas for purposes of advancing theory, research, and prac tice in community mental health.
