Policy Changes in Community Mental Health
Interventions and Strategies Used in Sweden over 20 Years
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11197448 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Magnus Bergmark (0000-0001-8802-133X, Department of Social Work Umeå University Sweden, corresponding author), Ulrika Bejerholm (0000-0001-7505-6955, Department of Health Sciences/Work and Mental Health Lund University Lund Sweden, corresponding author), Urban Markström (0000-0002-6330-5640, Department of Social Work Umeå University Sweden, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 51 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 95-113 |
| Publication date | 2017-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Policy and Administration (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0144-5596 • E-ISSN: 1467-9515 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/spol.12175 |
| OpenAlex | W2121004452 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 23 |
The deinstitutionalization of mental health care has changed the responsibilities of involved authorities and has led to a continuous need for new treatment forms and interventions. This article describes this development in Europe, and in particular how these new conditions have been handled in Sweden over the past 20 years at the level of governmental policy‐making. Three major policy documents from 1994, 2009 and 2012 were included in this study. To increase our understanding of the policies' contents, we have used theoretical concepts concerning governance, implementation and political risk management. Although our main interest was to find out how the government handles interventions for users of the mental health care system, we found that the policy work is progressing stepwise. The first document, from the deinstitutionalization era, did not discuss interventions clearly. Instead, it was mainly concerned with both practical and economical areas of responsibility. The second document, from the post‐deinstitutionalization era, was more focused on what services should be delivered to the users, while the most recently published document to a greater extent addressed the question of how the support is supposed to be designed. The trend in European community mental health policy has been to advocate services in open forms that are integrated into the society's other care systems. This is also the case in Sweden, and continuous work is being done by the government to find strategies to support the development, and to meet the needs at both political and local levels
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| Citations per year | 1 |
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| Citation span | 2018 - 2023 (6) |
| Highly cited | No |