This text presents the major trends, best practices, and policy issues shaping community mental health (CMH) services today and is intended for use with both undergraduate and graduate students in social work, psychology, sociology, psychiatry, and related disciplines. Leading scholars, consumers, and practitioners in the field discuss best practices, consumer perspectives, diversity, homelessness, substance abuse, and policy issues. This new edition contains revisions and updates to reflect more contemporary trends in the field, and features new chapters on CMH with veterans, CMH with children and youth, law and CMH, and the future of CMH after the "Great Recession."