Description
Book SynopsisThis book contains updates of papers written by the Commission's subcommittees, including those related to housing and employment for the mentally ill as well as recommendations for change.This is an excellent resource for mental health rofessionals, policy makers and consumers and families alike.
Table of ContentsIntroduction
Part I: Updated Issue Papers from the Commission Subcommittees
Chapter 1. Transforming mental health care at the interface with general medicine: report for the President's Commission
Chapter 2. Employment barriers for persons with psychiatric disabilities: update of a report for the President's Commission
Chapter 3. Housing for people with mental illness: update of a report to the President's New Freedom Commission
Chapter 4. Issues in Medicaid policy and system transformation: recommendations from the President's Commission
Part II: Themes from the Commission
Chapter 5. Insights and opportunities: Medicaid directors identify mental health issues
Chapter 6. Transformation of children's mental health services: the role of school mental health
Chapter 7. The top ten concerns about recovery encountered in mental health system transformation
Chapter 8. Barriers to recovery and recommendations for change: the Pennsylvania Consensus Conference on psychiatry's role
Chapter 9. Transforming mental health and substance abuse data systems in the United States
Chapter 10. Delivery of excellent mental health care and acceleration of research: federal activities since the President's Commission report
Part III: State Examples of Transformation
Chapter 11. Transformation of the California mental health system: stakeholder-driven planning as a transformational activity
Chapter 12. "We never used to do things this way": behavioral health care reform in New Mexico
Chapter 13. Mental health transformation: moving toward a public health, early-intervention approach in Texas
Chapter 14. Developing statewide consumer networks
Chapter 15. Mending Missouri's safety net: transforming systems of care by integrating primary and behavioral health care
Part IV: Progress and Next Steps
Chapter 16. Mental health policy and services five years after the President's Commission report: an interview with Michael F. Hogan
Chapter 17. A public health model of mental health for the 21st century
