This is report of an evaluation of citizen board functioning in an eight‐county region. Included in the study were seven county mental health boards, four state hospital boards, one community mental health center and...
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Fifty clients and providers narrated their experiences with the stigma associated with seeking care for depression and/or suicidal ideation. Participants also shared their perspectives on ways to minimize stigma. The ...
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Fifty clients and providers narrated their experiences with the stigma associated with seeking care for depression and/or suicidal ideation. Participants also shared their perspectives on ways to minimize stigma. The narrative interviews were audiotaped, transcribed into text, and then interpreted using an interpretive phenomenological method. Open communication;community awareness, education, and prevention;as well as community-centered and in-home services were identified as ways to minimize stigma and enhance the care available to depressed or suicidal individuals. The importance of modifying health care providers' attitudes and changing the climate of inpatient services were also highlighted as priorities by the participants. Copyright 2002, Elsevier Science (USA). All rights reserved.
Specialized intervention programs for people with concurrent severe mental illness and substance abuse reduce the total costs of care. Compared to baseline, cost savings of over 40% were achieved by 18 months primaril...
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Specialized intervention programs for people with concurrent severe mental illness and substance abuse reduce the total costs of care. Compared to baseline, cost savings of over 40% were achieved by 18 months primarily due to significant reductions in the use of acute and subacute mental health services and despite an increase in outpatient mental health services. There also was an observable impact on cost reductions in medical and criminal justice services without an increase in family costs over the same time period.
In the tumultuous and chaotic environment of managed health care, hospital-based mental health providers need to change in fundamental ways. The traditional view of mental health organizations is a professional-bureau...
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In the tumultuous and chaotic environment of managed health care, hospital-based mental health providers need to change in fundamental ways. The traditional view of mental health organizations is a professional-bureaucratic one where actions and outcomes of planning are thought to be highly predictable. The author proposes an alternative paradigm for viewing mental health provider organizations, one based on learning theory, which accepts that the future is unknowable because of its complexity and the probabilistic nature of the world. Within this perspective, mental health care providers need to become "learning organizations" to successfully adapt to the new and evolving conditions.
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Culbertson, RATulane Univ
Sch Publ Hlth & Trop Med Dept Hlth Syst Management New Orleans LA 70112 USA Tulane Univ
Sch Med New Orleans LA 70112 USA
Leadership theory has identified leadership as a process or skill of transformation of organizations and society. Managerial theorists have seen leadership as a role within management, and have argued from a distinctl...
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Leadership theory has identified leadership as a process or skill of transformation of organizations and society. Managerial theorists have seen leadership as a role within management, and have argued from a distinctly organizational perspective. During the last decade, mental health executives have gravitated from the leadership is policy emphasis to one of management accommodation to major changes in the health environment. The most noteworthy of these changes has been the dominance of private markets in health and the introduction throughout the mental health services sector of management techniques of managed care. Leadership is once again ascendant as a result of the failure of several of these initiatives, notably prior authorization of care, and a renewed public policy emphasis on needs of persons who are mentally ill. Major opportunities confronting the contemporary leader/manager include advocacy, diversity, and information management.
Detailed analysis of information obtained is still under way, but initial trends appear to show stable enrollment, maintenance of minimum service levels, and lower hospital utilization.
Detailed analysis of information obtained is still under way, but initial trends appear to show stable enrollment, maintenance of minimum service levels, and lower hospital utilization.
The role of a prevention advisory committee in maintaining Michigan's prevention effort is examined. Accomplishments in the areas of program development, communication, policy formulation, and advocacy are describ...
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Abstract The concepts and organizing principles underlying facilities for assessing psychiatric emergencies are discussed. It is argued that the analogy with medical/surgical emergencies is, in many cases, inappropria...
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States differ widely in their delivery of pretrial forensic evaluation services, in terms of organizational structure and training requirements of forensic examiners. It was hypothesized that defendants adjudicated in...
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States differ widely in their delivery of pretrial forensic evaluation services, in terms of organizational structure and training requirements of forensic examiners. It was hypothesized that defendants adjudicated incompetent to proceed in stares using community-based, private-practitioner systems would show less impairment on a competence assessment measure, the MacArthur Competence Assessment Tool-Criminal Adjudication (MacCAT-CA), than defendants adjudicated incompetent in states using traditional, inpatient systems. It also was hypothesized that mean MacCAT-CA scores for incompetent defendants from states requiring forensic training/certification would be lower than for defendants from states lacking such requirements. Results indicated significant differences across the four types of service delivery systems examined. However;planned comparisons revealed no differences between a stare using a traditional, inpatient model and a stare employing a community-based, private-practitioner model. Analyses examining the effects of mandatory forensic training failed to support the hypothesis that training requirements result in the adoption of higher thresholds for determining incompetence.
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