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.

Includes bibliographic references and index.

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