Evaluation of the Department of Veterans Affairs Mental Health Services
Title | Evaluation of the Department of Veterans Affairs Mental Health Services PDF eBook |
Author | National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine |
Publisher | National Academies Press |
Pages | 467 |
Release | 2018-03-29 |
Genre | Medical |
ISBN | 0309466601 |
Approximately 4 million U.S. service members took part in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Shortly after troops started returning from their deployments, some active-duty service members and veterans began experiencing mental health problems. Given the stressors associated with war, it is not surprising that some service members developed such mental health conditions as posttraumatic stress disorder, depression, and substance use disorder. Subsequent epidemiologic studies conducted on military and veteran populations that served in the operations in Afghanistan and Iraq provided scientific evidence that those who fought were in fact being diagnosed with mental illnesses and experiencing mental healthâ€"related outcomesâ€"in particular, suicideâ€"at a higher rate than the general population. This report provides a comprehensive assessment of the quality, capacity, and access to mental health care services for veterans who served in the Armed Forces in Operation Enduring Freedom/Operation Iraqi Freedom/Operation New Dawn. It includes an analysis of not only the quality and capacity of mental health care services within the Department of Veterans Affairs, but also barriers faced by patients in utilizing those services.
Systematic Psychiatric Evaluation
Title | Systematic Psychiatric Evaluation PDF eBook |
Author | Margaret S. Chisolm |
Publisher | JHU Press |
Pages | 261 |
Release | 2012-09-07 |
Genre | Psychology |
ISBN | 1421407027 |
The Perspectives approach to psychiatry focuses on four aspects of psychiatric practice and research: disease, dimensional, behavior, and lifestory. In Systematic Psychiatric Evaluation, Drs. Margaret S. Chisolm and Constantine G. Lyketsos underscore the benefits of this approach, showing how it improves clinicians' abilities to evaluate, diagnose, and treat patients. Drs. Chisolm and Lyketsos use increasingly complex case histories to help the mental health provider evaluate patients demonstrating symptoms of bipolar disorder, psychosis, suicidal ideation, depression, eating disorders, and cutting, among other conditions. The book also includes an exercise that simulates the Perspectives approach side by side with traditional methods, revealing the advantages of a method that engages not one but four points of view. Featuring a foreword by Drs. Paul R. McHugh and Phillip R. Slavney, the originators of the Perspectives approach, this innovative book will be used in psychiatric training programs as well as by practicing mental health clinicians. -- Arnold E. Andersen, M.D., The University of Iowa College of Medicine
Evaluating Community Mental Health Services
Title | Evaluating Community Mental Health Services PDF eBook |
Author | Isabel Davidoff |
Publisher | |
Pages | 476 |
Release | 1977 |
Genre | Community mental health services |
ISBN |
Mental Health Service Evaluation
Title | Mental Health Service Evaluation PDF eBook |
Author | Helle Charlotte Knudsen |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 404 |
Release | 1996-03-14 |
Genre | Medical |
ISBN | 9780521460880 |
A comprehensive international review providing guidance in appropriate research strategies for evaluation of mental health services.
Mental Health Service Evaluation
Title | Mental Health Service Evaluation PDF eBook |
Author | Helle Charlotte Knudsen |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 404 |
Release | 1996-03-14 |
Genre | Medical |
ISBN | 9780521460880 |
A comprehensive international review providing guidance in appropriate research strategies for evaluation of mental health services.
Evaluation in Mental Health
Title | Evaluation in Mental Health PDF eBook |
Author | United States. National Advisory Mental Health Council. Community Services Committee |
Publisher | |
Pages | 304 |
Release | 1955 |
Genre | Mental health |
ISBN |
Innovative Approaches to Mental Health Evaluation
Title | Innovative Approaches to Mental Health Evaluation PDF eBook |
Author | Gerald J. Stahler |
Publisher | Academic Press |
Pages | 414 |
Release | 2013-10-22 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1483276503 |
Innovative Approaches to Mental Health Evaluation is a collection of papers that provides a broad range of ideas, methods, and techniques in program administration and evaluation in the field of mental health. The book is organized into 2 sections. Part I, consisting of 8 chapters, presents the necessary evaluation strategies and approaches that effectively address the important mental health issues for the 1980s such as prevention programs; the linking of health and mental health delivery systems; accountability in assuring quality of services; deinstitutionalizing the chronically mentally ill; and providing for greater local participation in mental health program management. Part II, surveys the promising evaluation methods, approaches, and relevant issues that are emerging in the new organizational and political environment of the mental health system. The book will be of good use to mental health administrators, researchers, managers, students, and evaluators.