"This definitive resource offers those working in the field of mental health services administration fundamental information on delivery of care systems from an organizational perspective. It examines the principles of leadership and management in the field and sets the practice of psychiatric administration and management in the context of today's rapidly evolving health care environment. Mental Health Care Administration provides an understanding of the complexities of clinical skills and the delicacies of therapeutic issues in a mental health care setting and will be especially useful for those clinicians who have assumed administrative roles and for those administrators trained exclusively in programs emphasizing management and leadership."--BOOK JACKET.