Evidence-Based Practices in Mental Health Care

As the first attempt to synthesize the movement toward widespread implementation of evidence-based mental health practices, this groundbreaking collection articulates the basic tenets of evidence-based medicine and shows how practices proven effective by clinical services research could improve the lives of many people. Intended to stimulate much-needed public discussion, these remarkable contributions cover both general issues, such as -Implementing practices in routine mental health settings, including strategies for disseminating evidence-based practices to staff members -Ensuring that efforts to implement such practices are informed by the knowledge and experience of administrators, clinicians, patients, and advocates -Integrating evidence-based practices with the recovery model and focusing on guidelines and algorithms for pharmacologic treatment of people with severe mental illness -Identifying the policy implications of the movement, particularly in public-sector settings, and describing eight courses of action for addressing the gap between science and practice and specific practices, such as -Describing critical components of practices for which substantial evidence exists, such as supported employment, dual diagnosis services, and assertive community treatment -Developing an evidence base for particular populations, such as children and adolescents and geriatric patients; and for clinical subgroups, such as patients with severe mental illness and posttraumatic stress disorder-and implementing a range of practices for each population Debate in public forums is critical to explaining the benefits of evidence-based care and allaying the fears of patients, practitioners, administrators, policy makers, and vested interest groups that evidence-based care excludes them from the decision-making process. Patients need to know that their individual characteristics, preferences, and autonomy are highly valued and won't be discounted by rigid adherence to the particular treatments. Practitioners need to know about the credibility of the evidence base and about new techniques and responsibilities and to understand that their favorite practices won't necessarily be excluded during initial attempts to implement evidence-based practices. Administrators and policy makers need to know about financing, organizing, implementing, and sustaining new practices. Finally, vested interest groups need to know that the introduction of evidence-based practices doesn't mean that what they do now is ineffective. This unique and densely informative volume will be welcomed by mental health care professionals and by lawmakers, planners, administrators, and others who are charged with the responsibility of providing effective care to vulnerable populations.

ISBN 089042294X   Pages 128 ISBN13 9780890422946 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher American Psychiatric Publishing   Weight (grammes) 381 Imprint American Psychiatric Press Inc.   Published in Arlington Format Paperback   Height (mm) 279 Publication date 31 Mar 2003   Width (mm) 216 Library of Congress 2002043870   Spine width (mm) 9 DEWEY 362.2   Academic level Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly DEWEY edition DC21

		Introduction by Robert E. Drake and Howard H. Goldman
		Implementing Evidence-Based Practices in Routine Mental Health Service Settings by Robert E. Drake and Howard H. Goldman and H. Stephen Leff and Anthony F. Lehman and Lisa Dixon and Kim T. Mueser and William C. Torrey		1
		Implementing Evidence-Based Practices for Persons With Severe Mental Illnesses by William C. Torrey and Robert E. Drake and Lisa Dixon and Barbara J. Burns and Laurie Flynn and A. John Rush and Robin E. Clark and Dale Klatzker		5
		Strategies for Disseminating Evidence-Based Practices to Staff Who Treat People With Serious Mental Illness by Patrick W. Corrigan and Leigh Steiner and Stanley G. McCracken and Barbara Blaser and Michael Barr		11
		Integrating Evidence-Based Practices and the Recovery Model by Frederick J. Frese III and Jonathan Stanley and Ken Kress and Suzanne Vogel-Scibilia		21
		Implementing Supported Employment as an Evidence-Based Practice by Gary R. Bond and Deborah R. Becker and Robert E. Drake and Charles A. Rapp and Neil Meisler and Anthony F. Lehman and Morris D. Bell and Crystal R. Blyler		29
		Implementing Dual Diagnosis Services for Clients With Severe Mental Illness by Robert E. Drake and Susan M. Essock and Andrew Shaner and Kate B. Carey and Kenneth Minkoff and Lenore Kola and David Lynde and Fred C. Osher and Robin E. Clark and Lawrence Rickards		39
		Moving Assertive Community Treatment Into Standard Practice by Susan D. Phillips and Barbara J. Burns and Elizabeth R. Edgar and Kim T. Mueser and Karen W. Linkins and Robert A. Rosenbeck and Robert E. Drake and Elizabeth C. McDonel Herr		47
		Evidence-Based Practices for Services to Families of People With Psychiatric Disabilities by Lisa Dixon and William R. McFarlane and Harriet Lefley and Alicia Lucksted and Michael Cohen and Ian Falloon and Kim Mueser and David Miklowitz and Phyllis Solomon and Diane Sondheimer		57
		Evidence-Based Pharmacologic Treatment for People With Severe Mental Illness: A Focus on Guidelines and Algorithms by Thomas A. Mellman and Alexander L. Miller and Ellen M. Weissman and M. Lynn Crismon and Susan M. Essock and Stephen R. Marder		65
		Developing Effective Treatments for Posttraumatic Disorders Among People With Severe Mental Illness by Stanley D. Rosenberg and Kim T. Mueser and Matthew J. Friedman and Paul G. Gorman and Robert E. Drake and Robert M. Vidaver and William C. Torrey and Mary K. Jankowski		73
		Evidence-Based Practice in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services by Kimberly Hoagwood and Barbara J. Burns and Laurel Kiser and Heather Ringeisen and Sonja K. Schoenwald		83
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