Services for people with mental disorders are at present expensive, often not particularly effective, and very often criticized. Yet much of this seems unnecessary. The magnitude of the task has been defined and a good mental health service should not require endless money to deal with it adequately. There are now effective treatments for most disorders. The principle problem is in the deployments and training of staff to deliver these treatments.
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