Full Description
One in five adults and one in six youth experience a mental health illness within a year. These common conditions are often managed within complex public and private care provision structures that are fragmented, siloed and difficult to navigate. These problems have become increasingly evident to stakeholders and policy makers, such that several states have started to modernize and improve their mental health care facilities and infrastructure. However, there are no guidelines for these efforts, meaning each group tends to tackle these problems in different ways.
Redesigning the US Mental Health Care System brings together an array of experts working to spark lasting change in mental health care systems across the United States. Chapters explore how facility redesigns, accessibility of funding, technological advances, and other strategies can work in tandem to optimize the process of delivering services to people in need. By spotlighting these efforts to implement necessary changes--as well as providing real-life experiences from users and practitioners within these systems--Redesigning the US Mental Health Care System creates a vision of a unified continuum of care designed to serve people at the right time and in the right place.
Contents
Preface
List of Contributors
Part I. Designing for Mental Health Care
1. The Need for an Improved Mental Health Care System
Gary M. Blau, John Petrila, and Andy Keller
2. The Mental Health System: Living through the Experience
Greg Hansch, Matthew Lovitt, and Sheriyar Hyderali
3. The Intersection Between the Mental Health and the Legal Systems
Steve Leifman and Tim Coffey
4. Funding and Connecting Disjointed Mental Health Services to Ensure the Right Services, the First Time
Deborah Cohen and Vanessa Klodnick
5. Reframing the Wicked Problem of Brain Health Care Through Design
Katherine Jones
Part II. Redesigning the Mental Health System in Real Life
6. The Architecture of a Modern Psychiatric Facility
Francis Murdock Pitts
7. Building New Hospitals in Texas
Timothy E. Bray and Sydney S. Harris
8. Improving Access through Collaboration and Consultation in Washington State
Jürgen Unützer and Rebecca Sladek
9. Optimizing Scarce Resources through Collaboration: The Massachusetts Child Psychiatry Access Program
Deepika Shaligram, Barry Sarvet, and John H. Straus
10. Redesigning Health Care: The Future of Aging and Mental Health
Rachel N. Sava, Serim Tarcan, and Ipsit V. Vahia
11. Health Inequalities in the Mental Health System
Octavio N. Martinez, Jr.
12. Funding Mental Health Care in the United States: A Story of Unhealthy Complexity
Todd A. Olmstead, Kathleen A. Casey, David Weden, Ginny Stuckey, and David Evans
13. Telemedicine Advancements: Connecting People Conveniently
Umair M. Hemani, Mari Robinson, and Alexander Vo
14. Pulling it All Together: Solutions for the US Mental Health System
Sydney S. Harris and Stephen M. Strakowski
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