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There is a growing recognition that the environments in which individuals with mental health disorders live, learn, work, and play have a foundational influence on poor mental health outcomes. As community mental health providers become increasingly aware of the importance of these upstream societal factors, it is critical to consider health education and health promotion, activities which extend beyond the exam room to touch the communities in which patients reside, as a necessary piece of the community psychiatrist’s societal role. There is a paucity of evidence in the literature specifically examining the role of the community psychiatrist in community mental health education efforts. However, community mental health education efforts more generally have been assessed for a few key stakeholders and entities that are highlight relevant to the community psychiatric work. In this chapter, the authors review community mental health education approaches toward families, law enforcement, and schools, among others. This includes innovations in teaching skillsets to lay people who would then implement them to effect symptom reduction and to expand illness prevention in their own communities.
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Talley, R.M., Belkin, G. (2022). Community Education. In: Sowers, W.E., McQuistion, H.L., Ranz, J.M., Feldman, J.M., Runnels, P.S. (eds) Textbook of Community Psychiatry. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-10239-4_14
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