Feasibility of Introducing Behavioral Treatment into Japanese Mental Health Care
| Autor: | Peter C. Campanelli, Yasuichiro Yusa, Harvey J. Lieberman |
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| Rok vydání: | 1991 |
| Předmět: |
Service (business)
medicine.medical_specialty business.industry Health Policy Mentally ill Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Behavioral treatment Psychological intervention Psychodynamics Mental health Psychiatry and Mental health Family medicine Health care medicine Mental health care business Psychiatry |
| Zdroj: | International Journal of Mental Health. 20:77-85 |
| ISSN: | 1557-9328 0020-7411 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/00207411.1991.11449197 |
| Popis: | Over the past two decades, literature describing mental health systems, problems, and treatment approaches that are influential in the United States has been accumulating in Japan. Biological methods have been used almost exclusively as routine procedures in Japanese mental health services. Psychodynamic methods have provided some theoretical orientation, but their practice has been limited because of lack of education, relevant training, and time on the part of mental health professionals. Family therapeutic methods have recently been imported into Japan, and interest in such techniques seems to be increasing [1]. In the mid-1980s, a number of Japanese mental health professionals expressed interest in cognitive-behavioral approaches to treating the chronically mentally ill as practiced at the Community Residential Treatment Service (CRTS) of South Beach Psychiatric Center [2,3], in Staten Island, New York. This paralleled government-supported efforts to upgrade services for chronic mental patients in Japan. We therefore undertook to introduce |
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