Mental Health Policy Inquiry, Its Importance, and Its Rewards |
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| Authors: | David A Rochefort |
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| Institution: | David A. Rochefort;is associate professor of political science at Northeastern University, in Boston. His books include American Social Welfare Policy: Dynamics of Formulation and Change (1986), (editor) Handbook on Mental Health Policy in the United States, and From Poorhouses to Homelessness: Policy Analysis and Mental Health Care (1993). He is a former postdoctoral fellow in the Rutgers-Princeton Program in Mental Health Research, and currently is studying issues in Canadian menial health policy. |
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| Abstract: | This article suggests some characteristics of the field of mental health that might explain why political scientists and public policy analysts have evidenced little interest in the study of mental health policy. Following a brief overview of United States mental health policy, the author makes the case for the importance of menial health policy inquiry on grounds of both pragmatic and theoretical significance. |
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