Social and Community Psychiatry: Towards a Critical, Patient-Oriented Approach

Preface.- A Brief History of Social Psychiatry.- Psychiatric Epidemiology and its Applications in Social Psychiatry.- Global Mental Health.- Psychiatric Reform in Europe.- Psychiatric Reform in Greece.- Psychoanalysis and public psychiatric care.- Mental Health Promotion: good practice in community settings.- Social Exclusion and Mental Health in Metropolitan Athens.- Psychosocial Rehabilitation and the Recovery Model: Applications in residential units in the community.- Mobile Mental Health Units in the Cyclades Islands: Mental Health Care for Adults.- Mobile Mental Health Units in the Cyclades Islands: Mental Health Care for Children and Adolescents.- A Modern Day Care Centre in Athens.- ACT and Home Care.- Counselling and Psychodynamic Psychotherapy in community settings.- Mental Health Care of itinerant populations in the community.- Modern Technologies and Social Psychiatry.- Domestic Violence and Mental Health Services in the community: Management and Evaluation.- Sexuality in individuals with severe mental illness at PSR units.- Evaluating Social Psychiatry Services.- Implications of the Socioeconomic Crisis for Staff in Community PSR units: the case of an NGO.- Staff Evaluation and Organizational Culture in Mental Health Units.- Participation and Empowerment of Users and Families.- Involuntary Hospitalization: Legal context, Epidemiology and Outcome.- Mental Health and the Financial Crisis.