Advances in mental health research : implications for practice / edited by Janet B.W. Williams, Kathleen Ell ; with a foreword by Steven E. Hyman.

Washington, DC : NASW Press, [1998], ©1998.

xi, 523 pages ; 26 cm

Commissioned by the National Institute of Mental Health to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the signing of the National Mental Health Act.

Epidemiology of mental disorders / Ronald C. Kessler, Jaime M. Abelson, and Shanyang Zhao -- Classification and diagnostic assessment / Janet B.W. Williams -- Mood disorders / Lee W. Badger and Elizabeth H. Rand -- Anxiety disorders / Gail Steketee ... [et al.] -- Schizophrenia / John S. Brekke and Elizabeth S. Slade -- Substance use disorders / Carl G. Leukefeld and Robert Walker --Personality disorders / Nancee Blum and Bruce Pfohl -- Stress-related disorders / Kathleen Ell and Eugene Aisenberg -- Background of services and treatment research / Enola K. Proctor and Arlene Rubin Stiffman -- Short-term treatment : models, methods, and research / Sophia F. Dziegielewski, John P. Shields, and Bruce A. Thyer

Includes bibliographic references and index.