Mental Health Resource Guide for Community Health Care Providers
Author | : Victorian Order of Nurses for Canada |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 67 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Community health nursing |
ISBN | : 9780968111116 |
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Author | : Victorian Order of Nurses for Canada |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 67 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Community health nursing |
ISBN | : 9780968111116 |
Author | : Barbara Dickey |
Publisher | : American Psychiatric Pub |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 2008-08-13 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 158562764X |
How can professionals maintain or improve the quality of care they provide when pressured by payers to reduce the cost of care? Clinicians today face the challenge of providing optimal care in an environment where costs drive clinical practice. But high quality, not cost, remains the goal of professionals. By arming themselves with measurable results, clinicians can improve the processes of delivering mental health care and translate those improvements into better outcomes for patients and their families. In this timely guide, the editors have gathered the work of 49 distinguished contributors and crafted a valuable resource for overcoming the extraordinary challenge of delivering high quality mental health care. This groundbreaking book is divided into three sections: The challenges today's clinicians face in providing optimal mental health care -- Beginning with a review of the report to then-President Clinton from the Advisory Commission on Consumer Protection and Quality in the Health Care Industry, subsequent chapters discuss professional ethics and managed care, how Wall Street investors are changing the practice of medicine, problems faced by managed care, and changes needed in medical education to ensure that physicians are well prepared to practice medicine in the 21st century. Proven techniques for quality measurement -- Measuring quality of care presents significant conceptual and methodological problems. These chapters review quality measurement methods and describe support by the federal government to improve these methods. Also addressed are how consumers are joining the quality of care measurement movement and how one large urban county mental health program is advancing quality measurement. Fourteen case reports of quality improvement projects -- These chapters detail principles and techniques that can be replicated or tailored to fulfill the requirements of a variety of clinical settings, ranging from the national health service in Great Britain to a small geriatric unit in a large hospital. The work showcased here was done by clinicians or administrators who, concerned about the quality of care in their own settings, used data to test for themselves whether their interventions resulted in improved care. Even if managed care disappeared, we would still need to question, examine, and improve the quality of patient care -- with clinicians taking the lead, because only they can appreciate the subtle nuances that maintain or improve quality standards, and only they can make substantive changes in their clinical settings. As both a broad conceptual framework for considering the quality of mental health care and as a practical field guide to real-life techniques for measuring the quality of care, this volume will prove exceptionally valuable for mental health care professionals, administrators, and policymakers as well as for consumers and consumer advocates, researchers, students, and public health professionals.
Author | : Lunar Edwards Jd LLM Rn |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2024-04-18 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : |
This book will provide comprehensive resources in North Carolina concerning Mental Health. The Mental Health crisis continues to increase in the USA. Knowledge of resources is beneficial in obtaining treatment and support. North Carolina has a hundred (100) counties. Each chapter in this book covers a county. The counties have been listed in alphabetical order. The first chapter begins with Alamance County and the last chapter is allocated to Yancey County. Essential information about community resources is located in each county. Topics cover services for medical, substance abuse, mental health, legal, housing, transportation, food/clothing, and physical leisure activities.
Author | : Mark Salter |
Publisher | : Elsevier Health Sciences |
Total Pages | : 315 |
Release | : 2008-02-07 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 0443102546 |
This title is directed primarily towards health care professionals outside of the United States. It provides a comprehensive outline of the essentials of work in community mental health care. Written in an accessible and engaging style, it provides an indespensible blueprint for the profession in the twenty first century. It summarises the history of community care; its why, when, what and who; the skills required to work with psychiatric patients; the practical 'rules of the game' in terms of the care programme approach, the mental health act and treatments (psychological, social and physical, including medications). This provocative and ground-breaking book will encourage debate and challenge community mental health workers to provide a modern and practical approach to the holistic care of the patient.
Author | : Edward T. Heck |
Publisher | : [Pittsburgh] : University of Pittsburgh Press |
Total Pages | : 139 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780822952367 |
Author | : Vikki Vandiver |
Publisher | : Bookrenter |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 2013-01-01 |
Genre | : Community mental health services |
ISBN | : 9781935871040 |
Author | : Department of Health and Human Services U.S. |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 46 |
Release | : 2019-11-19 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : 1794755314 |
Community-based behavioral health providers and systems have an essential role in serving individuals with mental and substance use disorders who are currently or formerly involved with the criminal justice system. These individuals are a part of every community, and as for all community members with behavioral health needs, individualized, integrated, comprehensive, coordinated, and continuous service is the standard of care. Individuals with behavioral health issues are overrepresented in jails and prisons across the United States.1 Most of these individuals return to their communities, families, and social networks and subsequently require community-based behavioral and physical health care services. Research has shown that mental and substance use disorders affect people from all walks of life, with or without justice involvement, and, with the services and supports of behavioral health providers, many people recover.
Author | : Tim Berthold |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 594 |
Release | : 2009-08-13 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 0470496797 |
Foundations for Community Health Workers Foundations for Community Health Workers is a training resource for client- and community-centered public health practitioners, with an emphasis on promoting health equality. Based on City College of San Francisco's CHW Certificate Program, it begins with an overview of the historic and political context informing the practice of community health workers. The second section of the book addresses core competencies for working with individual clients, such as behavior change counseling and case management, and practitioner development topics such as ethics, stress management, and conflict resolution. The book's final section covers skills for practice at the group and community levels, such as conducting health outreach and facilitating community organizing and advocacy. Praise for Foundations for Community Health Workers "This book is the first of its kind: a manual of core competencies and curricula for training community health workers. Covering topics from health inequalities to patient-centered counseling, this book is a tremendous resource for both scholars of and practitioners in the field of community-based medicine. It also marks a great step forward in any setting, rich or poor, in which it is imperative to reduce health disparities and promote genuine health and well-being." Paul E. Farmer, MD., PhD, Maude and Lillian Presley Professor of Social Medicine in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School; founding director, Partners In Health. "This book is based on the contributions of experienced CHWs and advocates of the field. I am confident that it will serve as an inspiration for many CHW training programs." Yvonne Lacey, CHW, former coordinator, Black Infant Health Program, City of Berkeley Health Department; former chair, CHW Special Interest Group for the APHA. "This book masterfully integrates the knowledge, skills, and abilities required of a CHW through storytelling and real life case examples. This simple and elegant approach brings to life the intricacies of the work and espouses the spirit of the role that is so critical to eliminating disparities a true model educational approach to emulate." Gayle Tang, MSN, RN., director, National Linguistic and Cultural Programs, National Diversity, Kaiser Permanente "Finally, we have a competency-based textbook for community health worker education well informed by seasoned CHWs themselves as well as expert contributors." Donald E. Proulx, CHW National Education Collaborative, University of Arizona
Author | : U.S. Department of Health and Human Services |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 2019-11-23 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : 1794763635 |
This guide was created to promote the early identification of children and adolescents with mental health and substance use problems as well as to provide guidance, tools, and resources for early identification-including a compendium of the most developmentally, culturally, and environmentally appropriate screening instruments. SAMHSA developed the guide using the input of the members of the Federal/National Partnership* (FNP) Early Identification Workgroup, chaired by representatives from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA).