Stress and burnout is a prevalent feature of the helping profession. The toll that these phenomena take on the individual can be devastating. This article explains the stress reaction from an appraisal model and discu...
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The production satisfaction is central to the delivery of mental health and human service. The most critical fator in service delivery is providing quality care. However, the ways in which services are delivered impac...
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Mental health care reform in the public sector remains a local proposition. Oregon has thus far been able to avoid major failures and has modest successes to report. Although the road to achieving all that was envisio...
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Mental health care reform in the public sector remains a local proposition. Oregon has thus far been able to avoid major failures and has modest successes to report. Although the road to achieving all that was envisioned at the outset remains long, the inclusive process followed gives reason for hope.
To control the rise in expenditures and to increase access to mental health and substance abuse (MH/SA) services, a growing number of employers and states are implementing a 'carve-out.' Under this arrangement...
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To control the rise in expenditures and to increase access to mental health and substance abuse (MH/SA) services, a growing number of employers and states are implementing a 'carve-out.' Under this arrangement, the sponsor separates insurance benefits by disease or condition, service category, or population and contracts separately for the management of care and/or associated risks. A carve-out allows a unique set of managed care techniques to be applied to a subset of particularly costly or complex benefits. This article describes various carve-out models, discusses the potential advantages and disadvantages of a full carve-out, and summarizes recent public and private sector research regarding the strategy's effects on access and use, cost savings and shifting, and quality of care. It concludes by discussing approaches to the assessment and monitoring of the processes and outcomes associated with a MH/SA carve-out.
The Michigan Department of Mental Health's prevention programming has centered around the development of community service models through pilot demonstration projects. A systems approach has resulted in the formul...
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Mayes, LCYale Univ
Sch Med Yale Child Study Ctr New Haven CT 06520 USA
Work with infants and young children is an evolving subspecialty of child psychiatry. Mental health services for very young children require a multidisciplinary approach and the held has evolved simultaneously in the ...
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Work with infants and young children is an evolving subspecialty of child psychiatry. Mental health services for very young children require a multidisciplinary approach and the held has evolved simultaneously in the disciplines of child psychiatry, pediatrics, psychology, social work, neurology, early childhood education, and nursing. Special areas of expertise and clinical skills are required for work in this area and even traditional areas of clinical skills-evaluating mental and developmental competency, collaborating with other professionals, and synthesizing information for parents-have an added valence when applied to work with very young children. Understanding early brain development and the complex interactions among biology, environment, and experience that shape early development has highlighted the critical nature of psychological interventions in the first years of life and added to the knowledge required for child psychiatrists. The agenda for the next decade is to bring the multiple viewpoints together around critical areas for development of the field, including improved diagnostic nosology, a better understanding of the number of young children needing services, pathways for accessing those services, and more explicit descriptions of the important features of mental health intervention for very young children and their families.
This article describes a children's managed mental health care program that incorporates both a family participation service model and a family-initiated evaluation model. The authors begin by tracing the evolutio...
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This article describes a children's managed mental health care program that incorporates both a family participation service model and a family-initiated evaluation model. The authors begin by tracing the evolution of the family support and the participatory research movements leading to current developments in children's mental health services research. In the King County Blended Funding Project, three service systems pool funds that are spent flexibly by child and family teams. Family advocates have led efforts to design and implement the project evaluation. During this process, many tensions have arisen between meeting the demands of both scientific rigor and multiple community stakeholders. Examples are given of the issues raised by family advocates and research scientists as together they established a theory of change, identified meaningful outcomes, selected measurement tools, and implemented the evaluation protocol. Guidelines are given for how services research partnerships can be successfully built to better address community needs. This article was selected as a distinguished research paper based on a presentation by the authors at the 1998 11th annual research conference titled "A System of Care for Children's Mental Health: Expanding the Research Base." This conference is sponsored annually by the Research and Training Center for Children's Mental Health, Department of Child and Family Studies, Louis de Ea Parte Florida Mental Health Institute, University of South Florida, Tampa.
To investigate the reliability of Medicaid claims data for use in research, clinical decision-making, and policy, medical records were abstracted of 105 inpatient stays on the psychiatric service of a large general ho...
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To investigate the reliability of Medicaid claims data for use in research, clinical decision-making, and policy, medical records were abstracted of 105 inpatient stays on the psychiatric service of a large general hospital. Primary and secondary diagnoses and outpatient specialty mental health services after hospitalization were compared between Medicaid claims data and medical record information. Primary and secondary diagnoses were reliable, but claims data failed to capture several types of outpatient services. This suggests strategies to use claims files more appropriately.
Proposes a systematic and systemic pastoral diagnosis model based on the formulations of James W. Fowler, Stephen S. Ivy, and Wayne E. Oates. Illustrates the application of the model via a care-planning case study.
Proposes a systematic and systemic pastoral diagnosis model based on the formulations of James W. Fowler, Stephen S. Ivy, and Wayne E. Oates. Illustrates the application of the model via a care-planning case study.
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