Here is a diverse compilation of current knowledge in public mental health marketing. A balanced collection of both research and how-to chapters, Public Mental Health Marketing helps practitioners and researchers learn to target specific groups more effectively, increasing their marketing effectiveness to benefit both mental health agencies and the people they serve. It presents a cross section of recent research on the many participants in the mental health system, including clients, donors, internal stakeholders, and the general public. Over a dozen chapters focus on the marketing of local, state, and national mental health agencies and their relationships with their various clienteles. This helpful book contains original research, tutorials, and case studies in areas such as the public as a target market, primary and secondary consumers’views of the system, referral and secondary resource markets, adolescents as a prevention and intervention market, and promotional and evaluative tools. Learn about the principles of marketing as they relate to mental health professionals; the use of fear appeals in public service announcements; building a marketing environment in community mental health settings; an analysis of changes in the marketing of mental health products to government, business, and industry; and strategies to identify and reach adolescents at risk for drug and alcohol abuse. Public Mental Health Marketing also contains abstracts for nearly one hundred recent articles and monographs that are useful to researchers and practitioners of marketing in the mental health field. Public information and public relations officers in local, state, and national mental health agencies, and academic and public policy researchers from both the mental health and marketing disciplines will find the information they need to increase the effectiveness of their work.

Marketing has come of age in health care. This book will help you discover valuable marketing techniques to defeat the negative image that often haunt mental health services. Marketing for Mental Health Services presents constructive suggestions for using marketing to help make decisions related to accessibility, pricing, types and quality of mental health services, and community relations. This book will stimulate mental health professionals to use marketing more frequently as a key management tool. In it, you will learn: what a marketing plan is and how to develop one, step-by-step how to more effectively target key groups and develop target-based strategies the basics of using market research, done internally and externally, specifically for mental health organizations how several community mental health services utilized marketing the "nuts and bolts" methodology of marketing Employee Assistance Programs to businesses interested in cost-containment These chapters and others provide pragmatic marketing information for direct application by marketers in the mental health services. Marketing can become a most useful and beneficial tool when used effectively and this book will show you how to begin.

Provides contemporary and historical information, including statistics, on several aspects of mental health in the U.S., including diagnosis of illness, treatment access and patient issues, children and adolescents, economics, laws and policy, professionals and facilities, illness prevention, and public opinion.

Designed for applied advertising courses in most community colleges and many continuing education departments in universities. The Sixth Edition of Canadian Advertising in Action holds true to its original mandate: Canadian, brief and applied. Carefully balancing theory and practice, this practical introduction to Canadian advertising focuses primarily on advertising planning. Viewed from a Canadian perspective, the concepts are presented in the context of corporate planning and marketing planning. Students explore the relationships between various advertising plans and learn how these are conceived and developed from initial concept through to finished creative media plans.