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Can Policy Transfer Help Us Explain the Global Movement of Mental Health Policies?

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This chapter builds on the mental health policy context identified in the policy core countries discussed in Chap. 2. The mental health policy context established above notes a particular rights-based posture for mental health policy in the core regions of North America and Western Europe. This posture is perpetuated through professional training and the community treatment paradigm is considered the best practice model both in terms of professional attitudes to treatment efficacy and from a human rights perspective. This policy consensus will be reflected in the international policy documents to be discussed in Chap. 5, and in the posture of law and policy reforms eventually taken in Samoa and Tonga, is discussed in Chaps. 5, 6 and 7. However, before taking up a substantive review of this process and the resulting policies, a framework for study must first be established. I propose Dolowitz and Marsh’s (1996, 2000) policy transfer framework as a means of doing so.

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Fadgen, T.P. (2020). Can Policy Transfer Help Us Explain the Global Movement of Mental Health Policies?. In: Mental Health Public Policy in Global Context . Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-6479-6_3

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