Consumer satisfaction and incarceration after treatment.

Abstract: People with psychiatric disabilities face barriers to employment both in the larger community and within the mental health system itself. Strategies used to affirmatively employ people with psychiatric disabilities as research personnel in an evaluation of community mental health services are described in this article. Our goal was to address two critical issues in the provision and evaluation of mental health services: the importance of meaningful work and productivity in the lives of people with psychiatric disabilities, and obtaining valid and reliable data regarding the effectiveness of community mental health services. A three-phase methodology for developing affirmative employment opportunities is presented, consisting of three components: affirmative planning, affirmative support, and affirmative rigour and method. The methodology is intended as a guide to assist evaluators and researchers in fulfilling the vision of the Canadian Human Rights Act and the Employment Equity Act.

Mental Health Care Reforms in Latin America: Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services in Mexico

The 11th Australian Rural and Remote Mental Health Symposium Communiqué.

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The importance of needs assessment has been one of the most consistent themes to emerge from the evolution of community mental health services. The term ‘need’ has become especially influential in European mental health practice. In the UK, for example, national policy has emphasized the importance of needs assessment underpinning the planning, development, and evaluation of mental health services. However, the concept of ‘need’ is used in different, and sometimes contradictory, ways. At the individual level, all mental health and social care should be provided on the basis of need. At the population level, funding allocation is intended to match the needs of the population, so that whether or not overall resources are adequate, efficiency and equity are achieved. The aim of this chapter is to define needs assessment, to consider different approaches to assessing needs at the individual and at the population levels, and to discuss how needs assessments can be applied in real-world settings in planning and delivering clinical care.

Individuals with serious mental illness often are unable to access consumer- and family-oriented community care, resulting in repeated hospitalizations, incarceration, and homelessness. The "medical home" concept was developed in primary care to provide accessible and accountable services for individuals with chronic medical conditions. Building on the work done in primary care, the authors propose a "mental health home." The model of care incorporates medical home characteristics, such as access to and coordination of services, integration of primary and preventive care, adoption of recovery orientation and evidence-based practices, and family and community outreach. Barriers to and strategies for implementation of mental health homes are discussed.

A New Kind of Homelessness for Individuals With Serious Mental Illness? The Need for a "Mental Health Home"

The need for evaluation of mental health services is emphasized repeatedly by mental health leaders, state and federal officials, third-party payers, and others concerned with the quality and costeffectiveness of mental health care. Although a growing number of evaluation studies are being conducted, they are frequently criticized because of poor study design, lack of methodological rigor, and failure to produce information that has practical implications for improving mental health services. Hospital & Community Psychiatry asked several evaluation specialists to briefly discuss basic issues and approaches in mental health evaluation and to list books or articles that they consider particularly useful for mental health professionals with limited experience in conducting evaluation studies. We think their comments, presented here, are of interest to all who are concerned with improving the quality of mental health evaluation. The contributors are identified on page 731.

It is becoming increasingly evident that paediatricians and general practitioners play a key role in assessing and treating children with mental health problems. A recent national survey in England and Wales found that paediatricians are probably treating more emotional and behavioural disorders in children and young people than any other single professional group and that, on average, this group of patients comprises one fifth of their referrals. 1 In one large survey in the UK, almost one quarter of 7‐12 year olds from a large urban area visiting their general practitioner had a psychiatric disorder, 2 and more than half of the children attending a child mental health clinic in a six month period had been referred by their general practitioner. 3 In the USA, a large study of 7‐11 year old children referred to paediatric clinics found that almost one quarter had a diagnosable mental health disorder, with a further 42% showing threshold disorders. 4

This program can be replicated in any setting that requires the evaluatiori and accountability of services and programs. It has proven that evaluation of mental health services by corporate executives on a short-term basis provides the evaluators with a personally gratifying experience and leads to stronger advocacy within the community for improved care for mental health clients.

Emerging definitions of health have suggested a shift in focus to one's ability to manage their health condition, function, and social determinants of health. The construct of health for youths with mental health and substance use disorders (MHSU) is complex and multi-dimensional with interplay between biological, behavioral, and social conditions. Expanding definitions of health is crucial in the measurement of health and evaluation of integrated youth services (IYS) systems for people with MHSU disorders. Hence, it is critical to understand the construct of health from the perspective of a young person living with a MHSU disorder. This study was conducted using inductive thematic analysis. Three focus groups were conducted from July to August 2017. A total of 22 youths (17-24 years) took part in this study. Results showed that health is a multidimensional construct situated in the ecosystem of a person's environment. Health can be understood from two macro themes: Individual health and Determinants of health. It consisted of physical health, mental health, day-to-day functioning, and being in control of your own health condition. Systemic and social factors were factors that influenced the state of health. This study contributes to a conceptualization of good health in youth with MHSU disorders. This conceptualization can aid in the development of more accurate measures of health and functioning and the evaluation of mental health services for youth with MHSU.

1. Mental Health Services for Children, Adolescents and Families: Trends, Models, and Current Status. Ric G. Steele and Michael C. Roberts. 2. Mental Health Services for Young Children. Diane Powell and Glen Dunlap. 3. School Psychology Services. Steven W. Lee and T. Rene Jamison. 4. Providing Services Within a School-Based Intensive Mental Health Program. Anne K. Jacobs, Camille Randall, Eric M. Vernberg, Michael C. Roberts and Joseph E. Nyre. 5. Inpatient Pediatric Consultation-Liaison: Applied Child Health Psychology. Bryan D. Carter and Renee T. von Weiss. 6. Mental Health Services for Children in Pediatric Primary Care Settings. Terry Stancin. 7. Providing a Range of Services to Fit the Needs of Youth in Community Mental Health Centers. Julianne M. Smith-Boydston. 8. Outpatient - Private Practice Model. Bernadette M. Landolf. 9. Inpatient Treatment Models. Luis A. Vargas, and Artemio de Dios Brambila. 10. Child Abuse Prevention and Intervention Services. Michelle R. Kees and Barbara L. Bonner. 11. Services to Prevent Sexually Transmitted Diseases in Adolescents. Beth A. Auslander, Mary B. Short, and Susan L. Rosenthal. 12. Treatment Services for Adolescent Substance Abuse. Beverly Pringle. 13. Targeted Prevention of Antisocial Behavior in Children: The Early Risers 'Skills for Success' Program. Michael L. Bloomquist, Gerald J. August, Susanne S. Lee, Barrie E. Berquist, and Robin Mathy. 14. Implementing Effective Youth Violence Prevention Programs in Community Settings. Patricia A. Graczyk and Patrick H. Tolan. 15. Adolescent Sex Offender Programs. William D. Murphy, Jacqueline Page, and Rebecca Ettelson. 16. Rural Mental Health Services. David L. Fenell and Alan J. Hovestadt. 17. Mental Health Services for Children with Chronic Illness. Ann M. McGrath and Ngan Vuong. 18. Psychological Services forChildren and Families who are Homeless. Mary E. Walsh and Julie Heim Jackson. 19. Telehealth/Internet Services for Children, Adolescents, and Families. Heidi J. Liss. 20. Therapeutic Camping Programs. Keri J. Brown. 21. Implementation of the Felix Consent Decree in Hawaii: The Impact of Policy and Practice Development Efforts on Service Delivery. Bruce F. Chorpita and Christina Donkervoet. 22. Emergency Services and Disaster Relief. Gilbert Reyes. 23. Program Evaluation Approaches to Service Delivery in Child and Family Mental Health. Michael C. Roberts and Ric G. Steele. 24. Large Scale Evaluations of Children's Mental Health Services: The Ft. Bragg and Start County Studies. Leonard Bickman and Shelagh Mulvaney. 25 Methodological Challenges in the National Evaluation of the Comprehensive Community Medical Health Services for Children and their Families Program. E. Wayne Holden, Robert L. Stephens, and Rolando L. Santiago. 26 Future Service Organization and Research Agenda

This study describes the development of the Consumer Participation Questionnaire to measure consumer involvement in the planning, management and evaluation of mental health services, and the attitudes of mental health workers towards consumer participation. Results indicate that while most professionals view the concept positively, progress may be occurring faster at the level of individual treatment than at the organisational level. Professionals with a more biological (as opposed to psychosocial) orientation were less likely to predict that services would improve if consumers were involved in the planning of services or were employed therein. Recommendations to facilitate more effective consumer participation are made, including the need for the value of a collaborative approach to be emphasised in professional training programmes.

In every sector, the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of mental health resources for wellbeing. Although scholars have long recognized the interdependent relationship between academic success and positive mental health, research that can be used to guide mental health service design and delivery in post-secondary institutions is relatively unexplored. Further, the experiences of practitioners, in their day-to-day operations toward understanding and responding to student mental health problems, are an under-recognized source of data that can contribute to more effective planning and implementation. The objective of this project is to use practitioner action research principles to design, implement, and evaluate a mental health and addiction services plan at Brock University in Ontario, Canada. This paper details what occurred in the plan-act-observe-reflect cycles as practitioners gathered qualitative data using interviews and the World Café methodology. Results show improvement in student satisfaction ratings with on-campus mental health services. Our experience reveals that practitioner action research is a useful framework for practitioners seeking a systematic process to contribute to both fields of knowledge and fields of practice.

In Australia, mental health services are delivered by a complex web of public- and private-sector providers. There is a growing recognition that linkages between these groups are not optimal, and a concern that this may lead to poor outcomes. This paper illustrates a conceptual framework for developing, implementing and evaluating programmes concerned with linkages. Drawing on theoretical and practical literature, this paper identifies different levels of integration, issues in evaluating programmes to address poor linkages, and features of useful evaluations. Within this context, it describes the method by which the Public and Private Partnerships in Mental Health Project (Partnership Project) is being evaluated. Conducted by St Vincent's Mental Health Service and The Melbourne Clinic, this is one of several Demonstration Projects in Integrated Mental Health Care funded under the National Mental Health Strategy. Collaboration is hard to conceptualize and collaborative programmes usually have many players and components, and tend to operate within already-complex systems. This creates difficulties for evaluation, in terms of what to measure, how to measure it, and how to interpret findings. In spite of these difficulties, the illustrative example demonstrates a model for evaluating collaborative programmes that is currently working well because it is strongly conceptualized, descriptive, comparative, constructively sceptical, positioned from the bottom up, and collaborative. This model, or aspects of it, could be extended to the evaluation of other mental health programmes and services that have collaborative elements.